According to Pullman’s testimony, why did the company reduce the wages of its employees?
The factory experienced loss and passed them on to the employees.
What two advancements in technology greatly improved communication over a distance and further unified the nation?
Telegraph/telephone
Name some of the reasons for the collapse of the Cattle Kingdom
Over grazing and weather events
Andrew Carnegie’s steel company became powerful through what process?
Vertical Integration
Who was the philanthropist who built more than 2,000 libraries word wide?
Andrew Carnegie
What was the goal of the Dawes Act?
To make Native Americans live more of a US Society kind of live. “Path to citizenship, private property, and promote individualism”
What is the name of the partial owners of a company?
Shareholders
What is the name of a court order to stop a labor union from striking?
Injunction
Who was seen as large, often round-bellied, men in charge in political cartoons of the time?
Robber Baron
Who was usually seen as the small people in the picture with little control?
Government
Many people would point out or call attention to what about the robber barons?
Control of what the government does
What is the meaning of the term Gilded Age?
The time seemed to be coated in gold (very successful)
Who coined the term, Gilded Age?
Mark Twain
In Emma Lazarus’ famous poem, she describes a woman with a torch who is nicknamed “Mother Exiles. Who is she describing?
The Statue of Liberty
Many male Chinese immigrants came to the US to work on what/at?
The railroad
