Immigration
Most immigrants entering the United States on the East Coast during the late 1800s were processed through this famous immigration center in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
Poorly constructed, overcrowded apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories.
What are tenements?
This business leader owned the U.S. Standard Oil Company and used Horizontal Integration to gain dominance in the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Term that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity in America.
What is the Gilded Age?
The rapid growth of cities due to the influx of people
What is Urbanization?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The process that made steel faster and cheaper to produce, enabling skyscrapers and bridges in growing cities.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This 1882 law was the first major piece of U.S. legislation to restrict immigration based on nationality, specifically targeting Chinese laborers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Thanks to the invention of steel, these built upward allowed cities to have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
This term describes the practice of combining many companies in the same industry into one large corporation to reduce competition.
What is Horizontal Integration?
The author coined the term "Gilded Age" to describe the era's outward prosperity and underlying corruption.
Who is Mark Twain?
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers
What is nativism?
This famous photographer and journalist exposed the harsh living conditions of the urban poor in his book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Term to desribe informal political organization in cities that often gained power by helping immigrants in exchange for votes
What are political machines?
Many immigrants worked in these types of long hours, low-paying jobs during the Gilded Age.
What are industrial or factory jobs?
During the Gilded Age, industrialization & urbanization created tensions between workers & employers. Name 2 major labor struggles or strikes from this period.
What are the Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Great Railroad Strike, Haymarket Strike, Ludlow Massacre, Flint Sit-Down Strike, Memorial Day Massacre, and Coal Strike?
This term describes people who sought to expose corruption and social problems during the Gilded Age through journalism and writing.
Who are muckrakers?