STUDY GUIDE #8
Gilded Age, 1868-1900 updated 4/10/08
Custer’s death was the end of an age in American West.
People of the West
George Armstrong Custer
Crazy Horse
Sitting Bull
White Antelope
Chief Joseph
Kit Carson
James-Younger Gang
Black Kettle
Mark Twain
William F. Cody
Frederick Jackson Turner
People of the Cities
P.T. Barnum
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Gustavus Swift
Marshall Field
George Pullman
Alan Pinkerton
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie (U.S. Steel)
John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil)
John Pierpont Morgan
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Fiske & Gould
Reformers
Mother Jones
Jane Addams
Albert and Lucy Parsons
Jacob Riis
Terence V. Powderly
Samuel Gompers
Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Nation
Booker T. Washington
Political People
William “Boss” Tweed
Grover Cleveland
James G. Blaine
Rutherford B. Hayes
John Sherman
James A. Garfield
Roscoe Conkling
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
Jose Marti
Emilio Aguinaldo
Sanford Ballard Dole
Lili’ukalani
John M. Hay
Mark Hanna
Theodore Roosevelt
Commodore George Dewey
Porfirio Diaz
“Mugwumps”
Organizations
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World
Congress of Industrial Unions
National Grange
Anti-Imperialist League
National Baseball League
Fighting
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Coxey’s Army
Haymarket Riot
Battle of Little Bighorn
Massacre of Wounded Knee
Nez Perce War
Election of 1884
Election of 1896
Sand Creek Massacre
Boxer Rebellion
Spanish-American War
DeLome Letter
Sinking of the Maine
Battle of Manila Bay
Buffalo soldiers
Documents and Laws
Dawes Severalty Act
Teller Amendment
McKinley Tariff
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Treaty of Paris, 1898
Munn v. Illinois
Other Stuff of Note
Panic of 1893
Johnstown Flood
Cowboys
Ranchers
Reservation
Dressed beef
Importance of the railroads
Refridgeration
Robber barons
injunction
Trust
Monopoly
Corporation
Populism
Progressivism
Greenback Party
Bimetalism
Gold Standard vs. Silverites
Turner Thesis
Ghost Dance
Columbian Exposition 1893
Imperialism
Protectorate
Rough Riders
Muckrakers
“White Man’s Burden”
Open Door Policy
Klondike Gold Rush
Great Chicago Fire
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Expendable Income
Tuskegee Institute
Anarchists
Yellow Journalism
Immigration shift
Welfare capitalism
Sears, Roebuck, & Co.
Conspicuous Consumption
Themes of 19th Century
1.) Westward Expansion
2.) Sectional Politics
3.) Expansion of Democracy
4.) Unbounded Capitalism