Key Terms

Keeping a list of key terms for each chapter will provide you with a good review tool for exams. A few key terms from this chapter have been provided for you here, and you should identify other key terms from the chapter that are important. For each term, note the definition as well as the term's significance.

• The Gilded Age
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Tammany Hall
• Union and Central Pacific
• Credit Mobilier
• Whiskey Ring Scandal
• James A. Garfield
• Gould and Fiske
• Andrew Carnegie
• J.P. Morgan
• John D. Rockefeller
• Social Darwinism
• Interlocking Directorate
• Interstate Commerce Commission
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Captain of Commerce
• Knights of Labor
• American Federation of Labor
• Commonwealth v. Hunt
• Terence V. Powderly