HIST 102: Key Terms: Gilded Age: 1870-1900
1. Patent
2. Bessemer Process
3. Transcontinental Railroad(s)
4. Social Darwinism
5. Monopoly
6. Cartel
7. Trust
8. Sherman Antitrust Act
9. Horizontal Consolidation
10. Vertical Consolidation
11. Business Cycle
12. Piecework
13. Division of Labor
14. Collective Bargaining
15. Scab 16. Anarchist
HIST 102: Key Terms: Gilded Age: 1870-1900
Key People
1. Leland Stanford
2. Samuel Morse
3. Alexander Graham Bell
4. Thomas Edison
5. George Westinghouse
6. Henry Bessemer
7. John Roebling
8. Andrew Carnegie
9. Charles Darwin
10. John D. Rockefeller
11. Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels
12. Samuel Gompers
13. George Pullman
Key Questions: Answer on separate sheet of paper.
1. What resulted in the increase of industry after the Civil War?
2. How was the Railroad a revolutionary change to American Industry?
3. What allowed and accounted for Carnegie and Rockefeller’s wealth and success? Were they
captains or robber barons?
4. What key problems result from industry? Specifically what happened in America? Who
thrived, who struggled?