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
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