Immigrants
Why did many immigrant come to the United States during the gilded Age?
What is To find jobs and seek better opportunities?
What invention greatly improved communication during the gilded Age?
What is The Telephone
What were working conditions like for many factory workers duriing the Gilded Age?
What is workers often faced long hours, low wages, and unsafe conditons?
Which problem was common in Gilded Age tenements?
What is Poor anitation and overcrowding?
Andrew Carnegie became wealthy through which major industry during the Gilded Age?
What is steel?
What was a major challenge faced by many immigrants when they arrived in American cities?
What is Finding jobs, housing, and adjusting to a new culture?
Who is commonly credited with improving the practical electric light bulb?
Who is Thomas Edison?
Why did workers form labo unions?
What is to hep improve wages, hours, and working conditions?
Why did many immigrants live in tenements?
What is they were usually inexpensive and located near jobs?
John D. Rockefeller built his fortune primarily through which industry?
What is oil?
What reason did the Irish immigrants come to America?
What is the Potatoe Famine?
How did invention and new technologies affect American industry?
What is tey increased production and helped businesses?
Which statement best describes the relationship between industrialization and immigration during the Gilded Age?
What is industrial growth created jobs that attrated many immigrants to cities?
What is a tenement?
What is a crowded apartment building where many working-class families lived?
Cornelius Vanderbilt became one of the wealthiest Americans by building a business empire based on what?
What is Railroads and shipping?
Why did Jewish people escape to the United States?
What is to escape severe religious persecution?
Who invented the first patent motor car in the United States?
Who is Henry Ford?
During the Gilded Age what age would children be working?
What is 5 to7 years old?
What was the average rent for a family during the Gilded Age?
What is $8 to $15 a month?
William Randolph Hearst was best known for building a powerful business empire in which industry?
What is Newspapers?
Where did many immigrants live when they first arrived in American cities?
What is Crowded tenement buildings?
Who invented the airplane?
Who is Orville and Wilbur Wright?
What was the average salary for a family during the Gilded Age?
What is $380-$500 dollars?
What city housed the larget group of immigrants and tenement housing?
What is New York City?
What did Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Hearst have in common during the Gilded Age?
They became wealthy and influential through major American businesses and industries.