Gilded Age Facts 1
This law passed by the American government during the Gilded Age banned all Chinese Immigration at this time.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The growth of cities as more people move into them.
What it is urbanization?
This term was used by critics to describe wealthy business leaders who became rich through questionable or unfair business practices.
What are Robber Barons?
In the late 1800s, workers sometimes stopped working together to demand higher wages, shorter hours, or safer working conditions.
What is a labor strike?
The government offered this object/item to attract American settlers to the Western part of the country.
What is land?
This was created by the US government to please laborers around America and to honor part of work related concerns.
What is Labor Day?
This was the number one reason why so many American and Immigrants moved to cities in the US.
What is jobs/employment?
Many industrial workers worked long hours for low wages in these places.
What are factories?
Most Gilded Age immigrants came from this continent.
What is Europe?
This new technology made transportation to West quicker and easier than every before.
What is the railroad?
This famous landmark in NYC became a symbol of freedom and was often the first things new immigrants saw in America.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Crowded, inexpensive apartment buildings where many immigrants and poor workers lived.
What are tenements?
Andrew Carnegie became extremely wealthy by building a business around this important metal used to make buildings, bridges, and railroads.
What is steel?
The U.S. government's policy of forcing Native American children to attend schools designed to replace their traditional languages and cultures is known as this.
What are Boarding Schools?
This was an essential part of Native America life and was decreased greatly due to the railroad and American settlers.
What is the Buffalo?
This city grew rapidly during the Gilded Age due Andrew Carnegie's steel mills being in the area.
What is Pittsburgh?
As cities grew during the Gilded Age, this negative aspect of city life grew rapidly.
What is crime?
Workers joined these organizations to fight for better wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions.
What is a labor union?
This industrialist became extremely wealthy by building the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
This spiritual ritual was performed by Natives in hope that their old way life life would return.
What was the Ghost Dance?
The Gilded Age got its name from this famous American author.
Who is Mark Twain?
By the start of 1900, it is estimated that this percent of the country was living in cities.
What is 40%?
In 1892, workers at this Pennsylvania steel company went on strike after the company tried to cut wages. The strike became violent when armed guards were brought in to protect the factory.
What was the Homestead Strike?
This is the year that the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed.
What is 1882?
This process forced Native Americans to adult white American culture, everything from haircuts, to learning English, and practicing Christianity.
What is assimilation?