Gilded Age Test Review

Transcontinental Railroad

• Government awarded land grants to private companies to build the railroad

Government Regulation of Business

• Unfair Business practices led to Government regulations during the Guilded Age

Immigration

• The Port of entry in the late 1800’s was New York• Rapid expansion of Urban areas was a major result of

immigration• Political Machines provided immigrants with Jobs• Immigration laws discriminated most against Asian

immigrants• Late 1890’s most immigrants came from Southern and

Eastern European Countries• Political Machines came to power because they

provided Jobs for immigrant

Urbanization

• The U.S. became more urban in the late 1880’s because farm machines and factory goods reduced the need for farm labor

• Slums and Tenements best describe Urban areas by the early 1900’s

• A widening gap between rich and poor resulted from rapid urbanization

Thomas Nast

• Popularized the Republican Elephant and Democratic Donkey

• He portrayed Political Machines as Overbearing, corrupt, and oppressive titans

Nativist

• Their main objective was to restrict immigration

Post Reconstruction Era

• Was marked by corruption in business and Government

Plessy v. Ferguson

• Established the Separate but equal doctrine which upheld segregation

• It allowed segregation to continue legally• Validated the Jim Crow practices already

taking shape in the south and provided a legal precedent for their expansion

W.E.B Dubois

• Argued that African Americans should educate themselves so they could provide leadership in the fight for Civil Rights

• Encouraged students to seek liberal arts education in school

Popular amusements of the Late 1800’s

• They were inexpensive and readily available to large numbers of people

Booker T. Washington

• Told his students to focus on economic security

NAACP

• Stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Was founded to fight discrimination through courts

Women in the Workforce

• Worked in education, healthcare and Social Work