Urbanization
Gilded Age 2
Gilded Age 3
Gilded Age 4
Gilded Age 5 + Review
100
Define urbanization
People moving from small villages to the towns and cities; growing of cities
100
Transition of making goods by hand to using machines ; economy goes from farming to industry; lots of factories and big cities, etc
What was the industrial revolution?
100
Define nativism
Not liking people who aren't from your country; Favoring people from your country
100
If a government is "hands off" you would say they are...
LAISSEZ-FAIRE
200
What is this image describing?
Vertical Integration
200
The message of this cartoon is...
The Robber Barons control the government/senate
200
What group of immigrants helped build the transcontinental railroad from the west?
Chinese
300
What process is this describing?
Horizontal Integration
300
Describe the difference between the rich and poor lifestyle and living conditions from the Gilded Age (housing, work conditions, etc)
Mansions vs Tenements, Good hours/good pay / good conditions vs low pay long hours bad conditions
300
What is this kind of housing called? (T...) Also, what class/group of people would live in this housing?
Tenement Housing; Lower class, factory workers, immigrants
300
Describe some struggles the workers of the transcontinental railroad faced...
Weather/mountains/blizzards, Native American attacks, hunger, dangerous conditions (nitroglycerin explosives)
400
What 3 things allowed the Industrial Revolution to happen?
Natural Resources, Growing workforce, Science and Technology
400
Describe the changing of social roles in the Gilded Age...
Women worked and still cared for family; children worked and didn't go to school
400
Describe the impact of the transcontinental railroad...
Allowed goods and people to move significantly faster across the United States
500
Describe the class structure of the Gilded Age by naming the class and a job associated with each
Upper Class: Business Families
Upper Middle Class: Lawyers, Doctors, etc.
Lower Middle Class: Office workers, shop owners, teachers, farmers
Bottom Class: Factory Workers
500
Describe the working conditions for the lower class (factory workers)... be specific...
Long Hours (12-16), Low Pay (Less than 50 cents per week on abg), Dangerous working conditions (Mary story)
500
Name the 4 Titans of Industry and what industry they had a monopoly in...
Rockefeller, Oil; Carnegie, Steel; JP Morgan, Banking; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Railroads