People
Who was the muckraker, photographer and journalist that exposed tenement living conditions to the public?
Jacob Riis
Name three big industries during the Gilded age
acceptable answers: Oil, Steel, meat packing, railroads, manufacturing, banking.
What is a Robber Baron?
Someone who had a lot of money and control and took advantage of their workers. Often these people monopolized in the industry that they were in.
Where were the immigrants coming from in the Gilded Age.
Southern or eastern Europe.
When was the Gilded Age?
Late 1870s to late 1890s
Who was the political boss of Tammany Hall? (Bonus points for full name)
Boss Tweed or William M. Tweed
What is the Sherman Antitrust act?
The act was made to prohibit trusts and prevent monopolies.
What is the name of the unsafe, unsanitary, muggy, crowded cheap living places for people during the Gilded Age.
tenements
What was the immigration facility on the west coast in the Gilded Age?
Angel Island
What is the name for the railroad that went all the way across the states?
The Transcontinental railroad.
What did John D. Rockefeller do?
He founded the Standard Oil Company and monopolized the oil industry.
WHat is the company that locked women in the workrooms, so that they would not steal anything?
The triangle shirtwaist factory.
What is the name of the Act that caused a 10 year ban on Chinese immigrants coming into the country.
The Chinese Exclusion Act.
What is the name of the island that was the biggest and most active immigration station?
Ellis Island.
What is the Bessemer process?
A faster way to make steel.
who helped invent the earliest version of the modern electric lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
WHat happened to the triangle shirtwaist factory, and what was the result?
The building caught on fire, many women died from suffocation, or jumping out of the windows.
What is a Captain of the Industry?
Someone who had a lot of money and power, but used it for good.
Name two push and pull factors for immigrants in the Gilded Age.
Acceptable answers: poverty, unemployment, cultural, religious, and ethnic persecution.
What was the book The Jungle about?
The Jungle was exposing the terrible things that were happening in the Chicago meat packing Industry making it unsafe to be eating.
What did Andrew Carnegie do after retirement?
He gave away money to anyone who needed it because he thought it was wrong for a man to die rich.
What company caused the biggest Monopoly in the oil industry?
Standard Oil company
What is a muckraker?
Someone who saw the bad things happening in America and did what they could to spread it around.
What is the name of native born Americans who were not accepting to new immigrants and their traditions?
Nativists
Who wrote the Jungle?
Upton Sinclair