Industrial Giants
This industrialist revolutionized the steel industry with vertical integration.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This strike in 1892 was a major conflict between labor unions and the Carnegie Steel Company.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This immigrant processing center in New York Harbor opened in 1892.
What is Ellis Island?
This political party, founded in 1891, advocated for the interests of farmers and workers against big business.
What is the Populist Party (or the People's Party)?
This legislation, passed in 1862, provided free land to settlers willing to move west and cultivate it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This oil magnate established Standard Oil and practiced horizontal integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This labor organization, founded in 1886 and led by Samuel Gompers, advocated for the rights of industrial workers and skilled craftsmen.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This law passed in 1882 restricted Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This movement, led by farmers in the late 19th century, sought government regulation of railroads and banks.
What is the Granger movement?
This event, which took place in 1849, drew thousands of people to California in search of gold.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This financier and banker, known as the "banker's banker," played a key role in financing industrial consolidation and reorganizing railroads.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This violent incident in Chicago in 1886 sparked widespread fear of anarchism in the United States.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This political machine, led by William "Boss" Tweed, was notorious for corruption in New York City during the Gilded Age.
What is Tammany Hall?
This political party leader ran for president in 1896 on a platform advocating for free silver and economic reform.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
These were created and implemented by the U.S. government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, aimed to assimilate Native American children into Euro-American culture.
What are Indian schools (or Native American boarding schools)?
This industrialist founded the ________ Company and was involved in the development of the sleeping car for railroads.
Who is George Pullman?
This strike in 1894 was led by railway workers protesting wage cuts by the luxury train car company.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This immigrant group, primarily from __________ Europe, faced discrimination and prejudice in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Who are Italian immigrants (or Southern and Eastern European immigrants)?
This economic theory, supported by Populists, called for the unlimited coinage of silver to increase the money supply.
What is bimetallism?
This important transportation route connected Missouri to Oregon and California, facilitating westward migration.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This industrialist, known as the "Commodore," built his wealth through the shipping and railroad industries, including the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This labor organization, founded in 1869, sought to unite skilled and unskilled workers into "one big union."
What is the Knights of Labor?
This term refers to the process of immigrants adapting to the cultural practices and norms of their new country while also retaining aspects of their own culture.
What is assimilation?
This controversial tariff, passed in 1890, raised rates on imported goods to protect American industries but contributed to economic hardship for farmers.
What is the McKinley Tariff?
This massacre, which occurred in 1890, marked the tragic end of the conflict between the U.S. government and the Sioux people.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?