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| leading railroad developer, 9th richest American in history |
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| American politician, “boss” of Tammany Hall |
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| Editorial Cartoonist, “Father of American Cartoon”, created Santa and Uncle Sam, as well as the elephant and donkey for the political parties |
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| newspaper editor, founder of the Liberal Republican Party, “New York Tribune” |
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| 19th president, oversaw reconstruction and the second industrial revolution and tried reconciling the north and south |
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| 20th president who was assassinated |
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| American politician, 21st president, republican and lawyer, Garfields VP |
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| American lawyer that assassinated Garfield |
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| 22nd and 24th president, only president to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms, democrat |
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| industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist, built Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall. |
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| Financer and banker, dominanted corporate finance and industrial consolidation. Arranged the merge of Edison General Electric and Thomos-Houston Electric. |
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| tycoon, industrialist, politician, founder of Stanford University. |
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| entrepreneur, wealth came from shipping and railroads, one of the richest Americans in history. |
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| inventor, scientist, businessman, developed a bunch of useful items, phonograph, lightbulb etc.. |
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| oil guy, founded Standard Oil Company and became worlds richest man. |
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| American labor union leader, Founded AFL (American federation of labor). |
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| philosopher, biologist, sociologist, classical liberal political theorist. |
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| contributions made to political parties for purposes of party building and other activities not directly related to the election of candidates. |
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| contributions directly to a candidate and party. |
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| era of rapid economic and population growth |
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| aka patronage system, a practice where a political party after winning, gives gov’t jobs to its voters as rewards for working towards victory and incentive to keep working. |
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| “corrupt bargain”- an unwritten deal that settled the dispute of the 1876 presidential election, and ended radical reconstruction. |
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| federal law proposed by Charles Sumner, and Butler, passed by congress, guaranteed that everyone was entitled the same treatment in public accommodations. |
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| the gift of real estate as a reward for services |
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| a style of management control, united through a common owner but each member produces a different product. |
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| more common, “take-over”, one company merging with another. |
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| "Survival of the Fittest" |
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| personification of the ideal feminine figure. |
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| created under an act, provided the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure and preservation for the Union. |
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| built between California and Utah, formed part of the first Transcontinental Railroad and is now apart of Union Pacific. |
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| slowly connected over 8,000 track miles |
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| producing, transporting, refining and marketing company, created by Rockefeller. |
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| founded by J.P. morgan and gary in 1901, and then combined with Carnegies Steel company and a few others making it the first company worth a billion dollars. |
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| an essay written by Carnegie, describing the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class. |
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| organization of workers that have banded together to make a difference in their workplace. |
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