Inventors
This helps protect ideas from being stolen or copied
Patent
This entrepreneur is famous for helping make Pittsburg the steel city
Carnegie
Labor Unions grew during the Gilded Age. Name 3 reasons why.
Long working hours, unsafe conditions, poor pay, child labor, etc.
A new group of immigration to America came from ______________________ and ____________________ Europe
Eastern and Southern
Name one push and one pull factor for immigrants during the gilded age
Push: Religious persecution, lack of jobs, Political persecution
Pull: Religious tolerance, job opportunity, land
This invention helped make steel production faster
Bessemer Process
Rockefeller built a business off of what natural resource?
Oil
How did immigrants "cause" lower wages during the gilded age?
They accepted lower wages because they were better than what they were offered in their countries
Most Asian Immigrants came through what island?
Angel Island
The American Protective Association targeted immigrants of what faith
Catholic
Edwin Drake was the first man to successfully drill for what in America
Oil
Which entrepreneur is most commonly associated with railroads?
Vanderbuilt
Why did many people fear labor unions during the gilded age
They often became violent / business controlled a lot of news
Many immigrants were of what two religious backgrounds, which caused conflict among nativists?
Jewish and Catholic
This city became a major steel city during the gilded age
Pittsburg, PA
Thomas Edison is known for improving this invention
Lightbulb
A company that controls all or a lot of one industry is called a what?
Monopoly
What caused the Homestead strike of 1892?
Carnegie Steel company tried to cut wages and stop the union
small and crowded apartments that housed immigrants
Tenements
This term is used to label Americans that are against new cultures coming into the country
Nativists
To make steel, you need what two natural resources
Iron and Coal
What type of integration is this: Controlling every step of making a product
This labor group was known for allowing unskilled workers and African Americans
Knights of Labor
This act banned Chinese immigration to America for ten years (and was later extended)
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Jane Addams founded this
The Hull House