The Beginning
Something that is beautiful on the outside but worthless underneath
What is "gilded"?
I am the process that injected air into molten iron to remove impurities.
What is the Bessemer Process?
I am what replaced iron.
What is steel?
I am a political movement during the Gilded Age that believed that "native born" Americans were better than immigrants.
What is nativism?
I am the approximate amount of people who entered into the US during the Gilded Age.
What is 12 million?
I "invented" the term "gilded".
What is Mark Twain?
I am an office building that concentrated a work force.
What is a skyscraper?
I am the agency that was hired to protect the strikebreakers during the Homestead Steel Strike.
Who are Pinkerton National Detective Agency?
I am one of the two most likely places immigrants came into the US during the Gilded Age.
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?
I am John D. Rockefeller, and I owned this percentage of the North American oil supply.
What is 90%?
I am something that was "rotten" in the US during the Gilded Age.
What is political corruption, racial discrimination, child labor?
I created a safety mechanism to make elevators safe.
Who is Elisha Otis
I built Grand Central Depot.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
I am the law that prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the US between 1882-1943.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
I am JP Morgan, and this is one of the companies I had a hand in making stronger.
What are General Electric, International Harvester, AT and T, US Steel, Thomas Edison's light bulb?
I am one of the new industries during the Gilded Age.
What is petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, electrical power, railroads?
I am the country that has the longest bridge.
What is China?
I created Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
I am two of the three reasons for the rapid growth of cities during the Gilded Age.
What are new immigrants, African Americans migrating from the South, farmers.
I am an immigrant during the Gilded Age. I most likely came from this area.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
One reason why workers joined labor unions.
What are low wages and poor working conditions?
I am the inventor you chose and I know one thing about me.
Who is ????
I believed that money was the most important commodity to own.
I am JP Morgan?
I am two of the four problems that rapid urbanization caused in cities during the Gilded Age.
What are housing shortages, clean water, waste disposal, crime?
I am the man who took photos of children working in horrible conditions during the Gilded Age.