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The period of American history from the late 1870s to about 1900 that was characterized by industrialization, significant social inequality, and political corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
Name two problems industrialization created for workers.
What is low pay, long hours, child labor, dirty or dangerous work environment.
Complete control over an entire industry by one company.
What is a monopoly?
The immigration station in the San Francisco during this period which held immigrants from China and Japan for months at a time.
What is Angel island?
The most common and effective method used by labor unions to make an employer comply with demands.
What are Strikes?
Who coined the term "the Gilded Age?"
Who is Mark Twain
Better pay, better hours, better working conditions
What are issues that labor unions fought for?
This man was well known for his work in the banking industry during the Gilded Age.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Name one of the primary push factors for immigrants coming to the United States during the Gilded Age?
What is Religious Persecution, Famine, Political Instability, Poverty
The name for the overcrowded apartments that were used to house the rapidly growing populations in the cities.
What are Tenements?
Identify one major invention that contributed to economic growth in this era.
What is the Lightbulb, Telephone, Camera, Elevator, Telegraph, etc.
Name one of the major labor strikes that occurred during the Gilded Age.
What is the Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, or the Haymarket Riot?
This man had a shipping business that he sold so he could invest in the Railroad industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Name one of the primary pull factors for immigrants coming to the United States during the Gilded Age?
What is Jobs, Religious Freedoms, Better Economic Opportunities, The Prospect of a Better Life
A replacement worker for laborers on strike.
What is a Scab?
The transformation from a manual labor-driven economy to a machine labor-driven society, which results in mass production.
What is industrialization?
By 1880, one out of every six __________ in the nation was working full-time.
What is children?
This man owned the monopoly on steel during the Gilded Age.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Rapid growth, rise of tenement living, overwhelmed social services, decreased public hygiene
What impact did immigration have on urbanization in the United States?
The movement of people from rural areas to the cities
What is Urbanization?
Laissez-faire
What is the philosophy that government should be "hands off" in the growth and development of big business?
The idea that only the strongest businesses and individuals survive in a competitive environment
What is Social Darwinism?
This person owned the Standard Oil Company which had a monopoly on oil
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The Homestead Act of 1862
What is when someone applies for 160 acres of land, lives on it and improves it for 5 years, and then receives the deed of ownership?
An economic philosophy that promotes individual ownership and the free exchange of goods and services
What is Capitalism?