Men Who Built America
Captain of Oil Industry
The process of making an area more “urban”
A person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing, especially in politics
What is Muckrakers
Inventor of the incandescent lightbulb
What is Thomas Edison
Captain of Steel Industry
What is Carnegie
Term referring to Southern and Eastern Immigrants
What is New Immigrants
This Act outlawed "every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade."
What is The Sherman Act
25th President of the United States, pushed for national conservation and an anti-corporation supporter
What is Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
Captain of Banking Industry
What is JP Morgan
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale
What is Industrialization
This tragic event pushed for changes in the workplace conditions and fire prevention
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
This man helped with the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What is W.E.B. Du Bois
Captain of Railroad Industry
What is Vanderbilt
Tiny apartment style rooms that filled city buildings during the Gilded Age. Typically very rough and in poor conditions.
What is tenements
Theory based on Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, focusing on “Survival of the Fittest”
What is Social Darwinism
Born into slavery in 1856. Attended Hampton Institute. Seeked Economic Independence for African Americans, set aside the ideas of civil rights at the time.
What is Booker T. Washington
Those who acquired wealth through positive contributions vs unethical practices
What is Captains of Industry vs Robber Barons
This act said that the immigrants couldn’t come to America because people feared losing their jobs.
A person or agency employed to enforce antitrust legislation
What is Trustbusters
1931 Nobel Prize winner. This woman sought to improve society by helping people in Art, Jobs, Education.
What is Jane Addams