Big Business
This industrialist became famous for building Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This famous New York facility processed millions of immigrants arriving in the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
These crowded apartment buildings became common housing for poor and working-class urban residents.
What are tenements?
A political organization that controls local government and provides services or jobs in exchange for political support is called this.
What is a political machine?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
This term describes a business leader who became extremely wealthy by building a successful company and was viewed as benefiting society.
What is a Captain of Industry?
Many immigrants came to America during the Gilded Age primarily because they were seeking this.
What are jobs?
This photographer documented poverty and poor living conditions in New York City.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This famous New York political machine was associated with Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment
This business practice occurs when one company controls most or all of a particular market.
What is a monopoly?
Unlike immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, many immigrants from Asia were processed at this facility in San Francisco Bay.
What is Angel Island?
These organizations provided services such as education, childcare, and assistance to poor and immigrant families.
What are settlement houses?
Political machines often gained support from immigrants by providing things such as these.
What are jobs, food, housing assistance?
This amendment gave citizenship and equal protection under the law to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment
Rockefeller and Carnegie used this business strategy, in which a company controls multiple stages of production or distribution.
What is vertical integration?
Give TWO reasons immigrants often settled in American cities rather than moving immediately to rural areas.
Jobs were concentrated in cities; relatives/friends already lived there; transportation was available; immigrant communities provided support.
Name TWO problems commonly associated with Gilded Age tenements.
Overcrowding, poor sanitation, disease, inadequate ventilation, unsafe buildings, lack of clean water, etc.
The famous photographer Jacob Riis wrote this book inspiring future reforms in New York City
What is "How the Other Half Lives?"
Laws passed by Southern states that restricted the freedom and rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What were Black Codes?
Explain why John D. Rockefeller could be considered both a Captain of Industry AND a Robber Baron.
He lowered costs and prices and donated enormous amounts of money, but he also used aggressive business practices, sought to eliminate competitors, and built an enormous monopoly.
Explain how immigration helped American industrialization while also creating challenges for cities.
Immigrants provided a large workforce for factories, construction, mining, and railroads, but rapid population growth contributed to overcrowding, tenements, poverty, and sanitation problems.
Explain why rapid urbanization created both opportunities AND problems during the Gilded Age.
Cities provided jobs, businesses, transportation, and opportunities for immigrants, but rapid population growth also caused overcrowding, pollution, poor housing, disease, and inadequate infrastructure.
A political machine helps thousands of immigrants find jobs and provides assistance to poor families. However, politicians steal money from the city and demand votes in return. Explain why people might BOTH support and oppose the machine.
People might support it because it provided real assistance and services, but oppose it because it encouraged corruption, bribery, and political control.
Why did Reconstruction come to an end in 1877, and what happened afterward?
Federal troops were withdrawn from the South as part of the political settlement surrounding the disputed 1876 election. Afterward, Southern Democrats regained control and passed laws that restricted African Americans' rights.