Vocab
This means covered in gold.
What is gilded or gilt?
The socioeconomic group of people that perform manual labor
What is working class?
He coined the phrase "Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain?
The Federal Facility that opened in 1892 to process European Immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
Before the 20th Century, who did the Federal and State Governments side with during Union confrontations?
What is Business?
The Book written about meatpacking in Chicago in 1906.
What is The Jungle?
When large corporations join together to control the market - i.e. the Railroads.
What is a trust?
Jacob Coxey and thousands of the unemployed marched here to bring attention to the plight of the working class.
What is Washington D.C.?
He was the richest man in the history of the U.S.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
What was a synonym for third class passengers on Ships to the U.S.?
What was Steerage?
What product was Andrew Carnegie famous for?
What is Steel?
This meat scandal preceded the writing of the Jungle.
What was the Embalmed Beef Scandal?
Examples are Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Morgan and Carnegie.
Who are Robber Barons?
This strike occurred at Carnegie's mine in Pennsylvania, when he reduced wages in response to an attempt by his employees to unionize.
What is the Homestead Strike?
He was the wealthiest steel magnate in the world in the nineteenth century.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This Federal facility was opened in San Francisco to process Asian Immigrants to the U.S.
What was Angel Island?
This location is synonymous with the Banking Industry.
What is Wall St.?
In which war did Teddy Roosevelt fight and many soldiers ate bad canned meat?
What was the Spanish American War?
This means to promote the welfare of others, oftentimes giving away vast sums of money.
What is Philanthropy?
When mine workers, women and children were killed by the State Militia and the Private army of CF and I in Colorado.
He developed the use of the assembly line and made cars affordable for the masses - widely considered an antisemite.
Who is Henry Ford?
Approximately 1.5 million people immigrated from this nation to the U.S.
What is Ireland?
What right did the 17th Amendment grant?
Gives everyday voters the right to vote directly elect their U.S. senators.
Four items that might inadvertently end up in meat.
What are thumbs, borax, glycerin, rats, poisoned bread,
This is the cultural and geographic spread of an ethic, religious or cultural group.
What is diaspora?
This party in 1897 in New York city, brought attention to the conspicuous consumption of the rich, when there were so many people struggling financially.
What is the Bradley-Martin Ball?
He lead the first march on Washington D.C., to bring attention to the rights of the working class.
Who is Jacob Coxey?
This is a vocab term for the cultural and physical spread of a culture/ethic group or religion.
What is Diaspora?
This American Indigenous Tribe donated $170 to the Irish during the Potato Famine.
Who were the Choctaw?
What was the Food and Drug Administration?