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Gilded Age
Chapter 16
Railroads
Affected the entire country
Central Pacific and Union Pacific
Railroads connected
Economic incentives, abuses
Improvements
Railroad network, 1880
Tycoons
Andrew Carnegie – steel industry
John D. Rockefeller – oil industry
J.P. Morgan – banking and finance
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Morgan
Workers and Politics
Gilded Age
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
“Forgettable Presidents”
Congressional Supremacy
Organized Labor
Great Railroad Strike
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Affair
American Federation of Labor
Karl Marx
– Socialism
The West
Western lands and farming
Battle of Little Bighorn
Dawes Act
Wounded Knee Massacre
Custer
Sitting Bull
Indian Reservations, 1890