People
This person was convicted for stealing between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers for political corruption
Boss Tweed
What was the Gilded age
A time of great political corruption and wealth inequality in the late 1800s characterized by rapid economic growth, a flood of immigration, and scandalous politics.
Required meat companies to use better sanitation processes
Meat Inspection Act
When a single company or entity creates an unreasonable restraint of competition in a market.
Monopoly
More than 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States via this island.
Ellis Island
He was the guiding force behind the creation and development of the Standard Oil Company, which grew to dominate the oil industry and became one of the first big trusts in the United States
John D. Rockefeller
Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive era who exposed the harsh conditions, and corrupt industries in new york city.
Muckrakers
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
Robber Baron
Around 11.7 million people came to America seeking better living conditions, jobes, and opportunities.
New Immigrants
Helped to found the Hull house to assist immigrants and teach them how to live in America.
Jane Addams
A novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.
The Jungle
The most famous labor conflict in a period of severe economic depression and social unrest. Car Company factory workers walked out after negotiations over declining wages failed.
Pullman Strike
A positive term to describe businesspeople as being notably powerful, wealthy, successful, or influential.
Captain of industry
Settlement Houses
One of the captains of the industry of 19th century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the formidable American steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
A party organization that recruits its members by the use of incentives like money, political jobs, etc.
Political Machines
This act authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them
Sherman Antitrust Act
This event was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. It caused the deaths of 146 garment workers—123 women and girls and 23 men—who died from fire, smoke inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Cheap, high-rise apartment buildings that could house many families virtually one on top of the other.
Tenements
He was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century.
Jacob Riis
An economic philosophy that advocates for minimal government interference in the economy
Laissez-faire economics
A bloody confrontation ensued between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, ultimately killing 16 people and causing many injuries due to protests for fair wages and working conditions.
Homestead Strike
A 1,911-mile continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific coast at the Oakland.
Transcontinental Railroad
It captured how hoards of people migrated from rural areas to cities where they worked in factories.
Urbanization