Notable Names
This wealthy industrialist is known for his domination of the steel industry and founding the U.S. Steel Corporation.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This term refers to a market structure where a single company controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
This term refers to the growth of city populations due to the growth of industrialization
What is urbanization?
Many immigrants in the late 19th century came through this immigration station located in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
This famous author coined the term The Gilded Age
Who is Mark Twain?
This term describes a period when there is a large gap between the rich and poor in society.
What is economic disparity?
The percentage of urban populations increased in the late 1800s and early 1900s due to more of these being built.
What are factories?
This type of building, often overcrowded and unsanitary, were home to many poor immigrant families in the rapidly growing cities of the Gilded Age.
What are tenements?
This robber baron controlled the American oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefellar?
This economic theory advocates for minimal government intervention in the market and was embraced by many during the Gilded Age.
What is laissez-faire economics?
These people exposed corruption and abuses in society.
What are muckrakers?
Many immigrants who came to America found this type of work.
What are factories?
This author exposed the horrors of Chicago's meatpacking plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This innovation made for quicker transport of goods and people across the country
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This practice was overlooked or allowed because families relied upon the extra income and also because some machines had to be used by smaller people.
What is child labor?
Famine, war, turmoil are some reasons immigrants were ________ from their home country.
What is pushed?
People like Jane Addams, who founded the Hull House Settlement House, sought to fix wrongs in society.
Who are progressivists?
These organized groups advocated for better wages, fewer working hours & safer working conditions
What are labor unions?
A _____________ is a very wealthy individual who donates great sums of money to charity.
What are philanthropists?
A Knight
What is the Annunciation mascot?