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Shift Gilded Age Terms 1. Read and highlight the words you know and write a personal definition of 7 words or less OR draw an illustration that helps you remember the term in the Gilded Age. relate to the Gilded Age. 2. For the words that you are not familiar with, read the definition carefully and write a personal definition of 7 words or less as they 3. Decide if the term had more of a social, economic, or political impact on the Gilded Age and write one sentence for your choice. Term Definition Personal Definition or Economic, Social, Illustration Political Populism A movement mainly made up of farmers favoring government control of the railroad and other large industries because of the high prices farmers had to pay to move their crops on the railroads Political An organization that often controlled the local government by machines offering incentives like jobs and housing to immigrants and the poor in exchange for political support--Example-- Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed Civil service Reform that required government jobs to be granted on merit NOT political favors--established by the Pendleton Act Homestead A family's parcel of land and home where they settled. Example--Homestead Act of 1862 during the Civil War gave 160 acres of land out west in exchange for promising to cultivate or farm the land for five years. Labor strike A method of stopping work used by workers and labor unions to protest unfair and often dangerous working conditions, wages and work hours. Examples--Great Railroad Strike of 1877; Chicago's Haymarket Riot of 1886; Pittsburgh's Homestead Strike of 1892; and the Pullman Strike of 1894 which began in Chicago but spread nationwide. Violence and property damage occurred in all four as labor unions struggled to unify workers