Gilded Age Vocabulary-Study Guide

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Gilded Age Vocabulary-Study Guide

Curriculum Standard One: The students will analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to

realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

Curriculum Standard Two: Analyze the relationship b/t the rise of industrialization, large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and

massive immigration

/72 1. Trust: 2. Monopoly: 3. AFL: 4. Knights of Labor: 5. Anarchist: 6. Social Darwinism: 7. Ellis Island: 8. Angel island: 9. Suburb: 10. Gilded Age: 11. Graft: 12. Pendleton Act: 13. Imperialism: 14. Gold standard: 15. Merger: 16. Populist party: 17. William Jennings Bryant: 18. Strike: 19. Injunction: 20. Tenement:

Important people and ideas

21. J.D. Rockefeller:

22. Andrew Carnegie:

23. Gospel of Wealth:

24. J. P. Morgan 25. Jacob Riis 27. Bessemer Process: 28. Melting Pot: 29. Capitalism: 30. Nativism: 31. Samuel Gompers: 32. Laissez-Faire: 33. Thomas Nast: 34. William Tweed: 35. Tammany Hall: 36. Cornelius Vanderbilt:

REASONS FOR INDUSTRALIZATION 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Immigration Push/Pull Factors 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Websites

"Stereoscopic Views of the Oil Region of Pennsylvania and New York."

wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/index.html

Web Site Activities 1. Study the photographs that deal with Oil and answer the following questions. What do these photographs show you about the effects of the oil industry on the landscape? What industries near you have visible effects, and what are they?

2. Go to people and events on the Andrew Carnegie website and read about Herbert Spencer. Why is Spencer so important to the Robber Barons during the Industrial Revolution? What phrase did he coin and whose ideas to he apply to human society? Over what does Carnegie disagree with Spencer's philosophy?

3. Go to teacher resources on the resource page and scroll down to page eight and look at the cartoon and answer the following questions. What social class are the people receiving the money? How can you tell? Where is the money coming from? At what time of year is this cartoon taking place? Does it matter? Why? What is the Clown (Tweed) suggesting when he says, "Let's blind them with this, and then take some more?" What was the cartoonist, Thomas Nast, suggesting about the real financial winners in the public treasury raid?

4. Go to the Thomas Nast Website and pick out on of his political cartoons from the Nast and Andrew Johnson section and print it out one that you like and attach it to the cartoon analysis worksheet..

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