Titans of Industry
This captain of industry was in charge of Standard Oil
Who was John Rockefeller?
What is the telephone?
A system in which native Americans are moved off their land and onto new land. This land would be ruled autonomously.
What are reservations?
Workers were skeptical of this group of people as they feared they would take their jobs
Who are Chinese immigrants?
This famous court case centered on the 'separate but equal' clause of the constitution
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This captain of industry was in charge of several steel mills around the country
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This innovation made it possible to send goods across the country very quickly.
A law that broke up reservations into tiny pieces and sold those pieces to native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
This act made it illegal for Chinese immigrants to immigrate to the United States for ten years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A law in Louisiana that made it illegal for black people and white people to ride in the same car.
What law did Plessy violate?
This titan of industry was also known to be an anti-Semite in his later years.
Who was Henry Ford?
These places were often incredibly unsafe during the gilded age.
What are factories?
The deadliest mass shooting in American history.
What is wounded knee massacre?
This event happened in San Francisco in 1900 involving Chinese immigrants.
What is the Bubonic Plague Outbreak of 1900?
A supreme court doctrine that declares that the fourteenth amendment is not violated by separating the races, as long as both sides get equal treatment.
What is separate but equal'?
This robber Baron was involved in a scandal that saw him issuing false stock for the Erie Railroad
Who is James fisk?
This invention allowed a type set to quickly create words on paper.
What is the typewriter?
Often, land was sold to white people after it was allotted
What is the outcome of the Dawes Act?
This problem caused many issues between immigrants and their bosses.
What happened as a result of bosses speaking different languages than their workers?
This act made monopolies illegal.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
A wealthy banker and financier during the gilded age.
Who was J.P Morgan?
This strategy saw Titans of industry buying up all the competitors and owning huge sectors of the economy
What is a monopoly?
A famous chief killed just before wounded knee?
Who was Sitting Bull?
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
What is the inscription on the statue of liberty?
A labor strike that caused the death of at least 7 workers in the ensuing gunfight.
What is the Homestead Strike of 1892?