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Gilded Age Chapter 16
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Railroads Affected the entire country
Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads connected Economic incentives, abuses Improvements
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Railroad network, 1880
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Tycoons Andrew Carnegie – steel industry
John D. Rockefeller – oil industry J.P. Morgan – banking and finance Carnegie Rockefeller Morgan
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Workers and Politics Gilded Age Social Darwinism Social Gospel
“Forgettable Presidents” Congressional Supremacy
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Organized Labor Great Railroad Strike National Labor Union
Knights of Labor Haymarket Affair American Federation of Labor Karl Marx Socialism
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The West Western lands and farming Battle of Little Bighorn Dawes Act
Wounded Knee Massacre Sitting Bull Custer
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Indian Reservations, 1890
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