1. Collective Bargaining Secret (Australian) Ballot
Money embezzled from the government
“Teddy Bear” president
Process by which iron is made into steel
Election to remove an official from office
President of the Knights of Labor
Place where families could go for the day to ride roller coasters & Ferris wheels (ex: Coney Island)
Theory that new cultures stick together & don’t blend in completely with “American culture”
Amusement Park
Melting Pot
Theory that immigrants become assimilated into “American Culture”
Salad Bowl
New Immigrants
Ellis Island
Trolleys & Elevators
Nativism
Urbanization
NYC immigration station; many immigrants from Europe entered through here
Ways to get around in the growing cities
Anti-immigrant system of beliefs
Growth of cities
Idea that business operates best when unregulated by the government; French for “leave it alone”
Worst scandal of the Grant administration
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882 law that banned immigration from China
Laissez Faire
Monopoly
One business which totally controls production of a good
Vertical Integration
Industrialization
Captain of Industry
Robber Baron
Haymarket Affair
Growth of factories and machine production in the late 1800s
Complementary way of describing a wealthy businessman
Insulting way of describing a wealthy businessman
1886 Riot in Chicago; police officers were killed; labor movement was discredited
Ballot item which allows the public rather than the legislature
to approve or reject a law
Workers refuse to work in order to win better wages and working conditions
Collective Bargaining
Power of a union to negotiate a contract for all its members at a single time
Referendum
Strike
Injunction
Party organization which controls city politics
Socialism
Arbitration
Yellow-Dog Contract
Sherman Antitrust Act
Belief that workers should control means of production & wealth should be distributed more equally
Negotiation between labor and management; third party will make the final decision
Agreement in which a worker commits to not join a labor union
1890 law that sought to break up business conglomerates
Labor Union
Pendleton Act
1883 reform requiring civil service exams for government employees
Voting reform; votes are recorded on paper ballot but the voter remains anonymous
Mugwumps
Reform movement of western farmers
Organization of workers
Secret (Australian) Ballot
Typewriter
U.S. Steel
Great Strike of 1877
Child Labor

2. Frederick Law Olmstead
President of the Confederacy
Author of A Century of Dishonor
Pen name used by the authors of The Federalist Paper
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Steel tycoon; he lived a “rags to riches” life, proclaimed the “Gospel of Wealth”
They came from poor regions of Asia and Europe
Jane Addams
Social reformer who created Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants
Edwin Drake
Andrew Carnegie
Leon Czolgosz
Inventor of a new type of oil drill
Thomas Edison
Jacob Riis
Frederick Law Olmstead
Alexander Graham Bell
Most prolific inventor of the late 1800s & early 1900s: light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera, direct current, etc.
Man credited with the Invention of the telephone in 1876
Early “muckraker”, author of How the Other Half Lives
Father of city parks; designer of NYC’s Central Park
When all businesses involved in the production process merge together
Author of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer; called late 1800s the “Gilded Age”
Boss Tweed
Head of NYC’ss Democratic machine (Tammany Hall)
Mark Twain
Scab
Replacement worker brought in to break a strike
Henry Ford
Grover Cleveland
James Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Only president to serve non-consectuive terms; attacked by “Ma! Ma! Where’s My Pa?”
President assassinated by angry office-seeker Charles Guiteau
Former Union general and reconstruction president whose administration was rife with corruption
The first industrial tycoon, nicknamed the “Commodore”; his business was shipping and RRs
Court order demanding an immediate stop to a certain action, such as a strike
British economist; coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”; “Social Darwinism”
Author of dime novels which advocated honesty and hard work, such as Ragged Dick
Founder of the American Railway Union; leader of the Pullman Strike
Herbert Spencer
Horatio Alger
Eugene V. Debs
William McKinley
John D. Rockefeller
George Westinghouse
J.P. Morgan
Samuel Gompers
Oil tycoon; master of Standard Oil Trust
Inventor and advocate of the alternating current standard
Financier of corporate mergers
Founder and president of the American Federation of Labor (AF of L)
Anti-corruption Republicans who voted for Democratic presidential candidate Grover Cleveland in 1884
Railroad operator who created a “company town” in his own name in Pennsylvania
George Pullman
Private detectives hired to infiltrate unions and break strikes
Thomas Nast
Most famous political cartoonist of the Gilded Age; attacked corruption
Rutherford B. Hayes
Pinkerton
Hiram Revels
Chester A. Arthur
Charles Guiteau
William T. Sherman