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| 5767960418 | People's (Populist) Party | Drew support from angry farmers in the West and South. Highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads. Allied itself with the labor movement | 0 | |
| 5767960419 | Assimilation | the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. | 1 | |
| 5767960422 | The Gilded Age | The late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. Term satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold layer covering. | 2 | |
| 5767960423 | Social Darwinism | The idea that humans compete in a struggle for existence which results in "survival of the fittest." | 3 | |
| 5767960424 | Gospel of Wealth | Describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. | 4 | |
| 5767960425 | Jane Addams | a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, founded the Hull House. | 5 | |
| 5767960426 | Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 - Legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal." | 6 | |
| 5767960430 | free enterprise | An economic concept that permits unrestricted entrepreneurial business activity; capitalism. | 7 | |
| 5767960432 | trust | A combination of corporations, usually in the same industry, in which stockholders trade their stock to a central board. | 8 | |
| 5767960437 | socialist | One who believes in the ownership and control of the major means of production by the whole community rather than by individuals or corporations. | 9 | |
| 5767960439 | lockout | The refusal by an employer to allow employees to work unless they agree to his or her terms. | 10 | |
| 5767960440 | yellow dog contract | A labor agreement in which an employee must not join a union as a condition of holding the job. | 11 | |
| 5767960442 | anarchist | One who believes that formal, coercive government is wrong in principle. | 12 | |
| 5767960444 | tenement | A multi-dwelling building, often poor or overcrowded. | 13 | |
| 5767960445 | affluence | An abundance of wealth. | 14 | |
| 5767960448 | sweatshop | A factory where employees are forced to work long hours under difficult conditions for meager wages. | 15 | |
| 5767960455 | tycoon | A wealthy businessperson, especially one who openly displays power and position. | 16 | |
| 5767960456 | prohibition | Forbidding by law the manufacture, sake, or consumption of liquor. | 17 | |
| 5767960460 | reservation | Public land designated for use by Native Americans. | 18 | |
| 5767960479 | bimetallism | The legalized concurrent use of two precious metals as currency at a fixed ratio of value. | 19 | |
| 5768015617 | subsidy | Government payment/aid to a specific industry deemed too important to allow to fail; often in the form of cash | 20 | |
| 5768022939 | Thomas Edison | Wizard of Menlo Park known for patenting light bulb, founding General Electric | 21 | |
| 5768027173 | Steel | Fundamental building block of the industrial era; it was first made cheaply & easily using the Bessemer process | 22 | |
| 5768031888 | John Rockefeller | Founder of Standard Oil and master of horizontal integration | 23 | |
| 5768038302 | Laissez faire | Government economic policy to not intervene, to "let it be" | 24 | |
| 5768041955 | Corporation | Business organization of which shareholders own, allowing for mass utilization of capital. Became the standard of big business.... | 25 | |
| 5768050591 | Andrew Carnegie | Founder of largest steel firm in Gilded Age; he was widely known for his philanthropy and use of vertical integration to cut costs | 26 | |
| 5768057514 | Interstate Commerce Act | Designed to regulate railroads but failed to do so as court rulings stripped it of legitimacy | 27 | |
| 5768063168 | Sherman Antitrust Act | Designed to negate any "restraint of free trade" but was ineffective due to vague wording, courts | 28 | |
| 5768072894 | Knights of Labor | 1st large nationwide union organizing all workers no matter skill, gender, race; union diminished after Haymarket Affair | 29 | |
| 5768080785 | Haymarket Affair | 1886 labor conflict resulting in anarchist bombs killing police | 30 | |
| 5768084578 | American Federation of Labor | Union focused solely on economic issues, used collective bargaining to protect only skilled workers | 31 | |
| 5768090329 | Homestead Strike | 1892 labor conflict where Pinkertons were attacked by locked-out workers; government used militia to protect Carnegie's steel factory, scab workers | 32 | |
| 5768103159 | Pullman Strike | Massive 1894 strike by railroad workers, brought commerce & transportation to standstill. Court injunctions used to force strike's end, more violence erupted. | 33 | |
| 5768111520 | New South | Concept that would lead to industry replacing sharecropping and tenant farming to aid region's economic development; it didn't flourish until after WWII | 34 | |
| 5768120989 | Exoduster | Southern African-American who migrated to West to start new life, farm, avoid persecution | 35 | |
| 5768126141 | Political machine | Organization often using corruption, fraud to maintain control usually at the city but also the state level. Tammany Hall was most infamous example. | 36 | |
| 5768137876 | Cattle ranching boom | Made possible by construction of transcontinental railroads and mass urbanization need for food; long drive to cow towns key to system | 37 | |
| 5768145380 | Dawes Act | Attempt to assimilate Native Americans on reservations by dividing lands into individual farm plots--failed miserably | 38 | |
| 5768154284 | Social Gospel | Concept of "applied Christianity" to aid those in need--poor, urban immigrants; basis for settlement houses, other private charities of Gilded Age | 39 | |
| 5768162294 | Pendleton Act | 1883 law reserving numerous government positions to those who demonstrated qualifications, merit; this effectively brought an end to the spoils/patronage system | 40 | |
| 5768170184 | Jim Crow | System of laws segregating the races in all social realms; these were passed throughout the nation but were more prevalent and codified in the South | 41 |
