People of the Gilded Age
Immigration
Economy
Acts/Strikes
Vocabulary
100

Who founded the Standard Oil Company and later partook in philanthropist?

John D. Rockefeller

100

What were the schools for immigrants to help Americanize them?

Settlement houses 

100

Who were the industrialists who used their power and industry positively?

Captain of Industry

100

What was the first significant law restricting Chinese immigration into the United States?

Chinese Exclusion Act 

100

Who was a person who searched for and tried to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing, especially in politics?

Muckracker

200

Who helped grow America's Steel Industry?

Andrew Carnegie

200

Who were the people who came from Europe to America to seek better opportunities?

New Immigrants

200

Who were the industrialists who used their power and industry negatively?

Robber Baron

200

What act allowed Congress to prohibit trust?

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

200

What was a single family building divided into multiple living spaces?

Tenement

300

Who was a corrupted politician and the founder of Tammany Hall? 

Boss Tweed

300

Who helped found the Hull House fore new immigrants?

Jane Addams

300

What is a market owned by one person and has no competitors?

Monopoly

300

What strike was between Carnegie Steel Company and it's workers?

Homestead Strike

300

What was the port immigrants came through in New York?

Ellis Island

400

Who was the most well known inventor of the Gilded Age?

Thomas Edison

400
Who were the people who favored native citizens over immigrants?

Nativist

400

What is the process of making an area more urban?

Urbanization

400

What act prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded meat?

Meat Inspection Act

400

What was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel?

Bessemer Process

500

Who spread awareness about poverty through photography?

Jacob Riis

500

What caused immigrants to leave their country and what brought them to America?

Push/pull factors 

500

What economic philosophy advocates for minimal government interference in the economy?

Laissez-faire economics

500

What strike was caused by previous Chicago police violence?

Haymarket Strike

500

What was a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives—money, political jobs—and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity?

Political Machines

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