Culture & Art
“Gilded” means covered in gold. Who came up with the name The Gilded Age?
Who is Mark Twain?
“Robber Baron” was a wealthy business leader accused of using unfair practices. Name one.
Who is Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, or John D. Rockefeller?
What world event led to the US finally repealing the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943?
What was World War II?
Children often worked in these dangerous places during the Gilded Age.
What are factories or mines?
This invention helped expand communication across long distances.
What is the telegraph or telephone?
This art movement focused on dramatic American landscapes.
What is the Hudson River School?
The term “Gilded Age” suggests the time looked shiny and golden but hid these problems underneath.
What are poverty, inequality, and corruption?
This 1882 law was the first to ban immigration based on nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A group of workers refusing to work in protest is called this.
What is a strike?
Explain why railroad were such an important invention.
They connected areas of the country.
Fast, safe, reliable transportation.
Hauling people, livestock, and other goods.
Artists of the Hudson River School painted mostly these subjects.
What is landscapes?
What’s one criticism of Robber Barons’ business practices?
What is exploiting workers, crushing competitors, or controlling prices?
Why did many Americans support the Chinese Exclusion Act? Give one reason.
What is fear of job competition, racism, or anti-immigrant prejudice (nativism)?
Many Native children in the United States and Canada were forced to attend one of these.
What is a boarding school?
This car, introduced by Henry Ford in 1908, was affordable for many Americans and changed how people lived and worked.
What is the Model T?
Wealthy Americans of the Gilded Age often hosted this kind of formal social event to show status.
Seating charts were important.
What is a dinner party?
This term describes when a person or company owns and controls all aspect of an industry.
What is a monopoly?
Give one reason immigrants came to the U.S. during the Gilded Age and one challenge they faced.
What is opportunity for jobs/land; discrimination, poor housing, low wages, dangerous work?
Factories often fined or punished workers for doing this normal human need.
What is taking bathroom or rest breaks?
This invention was first mass produced by Levi Strauss and colored using indigo dye.
What are jeans?
What role did photography play in Gilded Age culture?
It showed what life was really like for poor Americans and immigrants to help push for social changes.
This industrialist made a fortune in steel and later donated millions to libraries.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Many European immigrants settled in rural areas of South Dakota to do this.
What is farm?
Explain one long-term impact of labor strikes during the Gilded Age.
What is improved working conditions, inspired labor laws, or union growth?
How did technological improvements in farming equipment affect South Dakota settlers?
They could farm more land with fewer workers, increasing productivity and attracting more settlers.