Urbanization
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?
Manufacturing large quantities of products using efficient methods and reducing production costs.
What is Mass Production?
Complete control over an entire industry by one company.
What is a monopoly?
The immigration station in the San Francisco Bay which held immigrants from China and Japan for months at a time.
What is Angel Island?
The transformation from a manual labor-driven economy to a machine labor-driven society, which results in mass production.
What is industrialization?
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.
This person owned the Standard Oil Company which had a monopoly on oil
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
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 movement of people from rural areas to the cities
What is Urbanization?
A Danish photojournalist who used flash photography to document the lives of the poor in tenements
(Need first and last name)
Who is Jacob Riis?
Protects an inventor's idea or creation, making it so no one else can make or sell it.
What are patents?
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
An economic philosophy that promotes individual ownership and the free exchange of goods and services
What is Capitalism?
The person who coined the term "the Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain
One of the five factors that led to growth in America.
What are natural resources, large workforce, new inventions, transportation and communication, and national market and government support?
This man owned the monopoly on steel during the Gilded Age.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
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?
The idea that only the strongest businesses and individuals survive in a competitive environment
What is Social Darwinism?
Resulted in rapid growth, rise of tenement living, overwhelmed social services, decreased public hygiene
What impact did immigration have on urbanization (cities) in the United States?
Created due to increased travel and shipping on the railroads.
What are standard time zones?
This man was well known for his work in the banking industry during the Gilded Age.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Community centers in poor urban neighborhoods that offer aid to immigrants
What are Settlement Houses?
The philosophy that government should be "hands off" in the growth and development of big business?
What is Laissez-faire