Big Businesses
John D. Rockefeller became very rich and famous by dominating what industry?
What is the Oil Industry?
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell improved communication during the Gilded Age.
What is the Telephone?
What was the main entry point for immigrants to get into the United States during the Gilded Age?
What is Ellis Island?
What type of workers' organizations fight for better wages and working conditions?
What is labor unions?
What political boss of Tammany Hall became a symbol for corruption?
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
What is the business strategy of buying out all your competitors to establish a monopoly?
What is horizontal integration?
This famous inventor invented the light bulb and was known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park".
Who is Thomas Edison?
What type of housing did poor urban immigrants live in?
What is Tenement Apartments?
What is the tactic used by labor unions when they refuse to work until their demands are met?
What is a Strike?
What is the term for journalists who exposed corruption?
What is muckrakers?
What law was passed to break up monopolies and trusts in 1890?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What invention by Nikola Tesla improved the use of electricity over long distances?
What is Alternating Current (AC)?
What famous settlement house helped immigrants and the poor in Chicago?
What is the Hull House?
What violent steelworkers strike involved Carnegie's steel industry?
What is the Homestead Strike?
What is the name of the muckraker who went undercover in the meat industry?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Andrew Carnegie wrote this essay about how the rich should use their wealth to help/better the community.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
What transportation innovation helped connect the nation in 1869?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What was the term for a rapid growth of cities?
What is Urbanization?
What was the average workday during the Gilded Age often longer than?
What is 8 hours?
What system replaced the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
What is the spoils system?
The term for big industrialists who were seen as unethical and exploitative of their workers.
What is Robber Barons?
What invention by George Eastman made photography more accessible?
What is the Kodak Camera?
What immigration law in 1882 limited immigration from China?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What dangerous practice during the Gilded Age involved kids in the labor industry?
What is Child Labor?
What president was associated with scandals like the Whiskey Ring?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?