Coming to America
Upper Management
Liquid gold.
Texas tea. & Etc.
Texas tea. & Etc.
More Money,
More Problems
More Problems
Growing Pains
100
This port of entry in New York saw 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
100
This industrialist wanted to connect the Great Lakes to New York City by railroad.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
100
Color the areas of the country that have great timber resources.
100
In this economic system property and the means of production are privately owned.
What is capitalism?
100
This was the name of the time period in the US where things looked good on the outside, but underneath there were growing cultural problems.
What was the Gilded Age?
200
This means there is are several religious beliefs in a society.
What is pluralism?
200
This Scottish immigrant made a fortune in the steel industry.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
Where is Promontory Point? (Find it on the map.)
(Found on map.)
200
These organizations were created to help workers address wage and working condition issues.
What are labor unions?
200
This "exclusion act" prevented people from a country from entering the country for ten years.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
This means there is little or no religious belief active in public life.
What is secularism?
300
This industrialist combined his company, Standard Oil, with several others to form the first trust.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
300
Where is Chicago? (Find on map.)
(Found it.)
300
This act was meant to set "reasonable and just" rates for railroads.
What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
300
This is the action of protest that a union might take to stop work when they cannot agree with management.
What is a strike?
400
This was about the population of the US in 1910.
What is 92 million?
400
This is the legal designation for a simple business with one owner.
What is a sole proprietorship?
400
A gushing well at this location was where the Texas oil boom began.
What was Spindletop Hill?
400
This is the application of "survival of the fittest" to the economy and interactions between businesses.
What is social Darwinism?
400
This French phrase regarding management of business means "let it alone."
What is "laissez faire?"
500
This man shot President Garfield and his brain is still in a museum in Philadelphia.
Who was Charles Guiteau?
500
This entity is perpetual, and it's organization and legal requirements can be complex.
What is a corporation?
500
This is the term for a person who searches for oil.
What is a wildcatter?
500
These are three (or more) changes brought to American life by the rise of industry during the Gilded Age.
What was:
(1) Urban population growth, (2) increased trade, (3) more leisure time, (4) urban problems, (5) shifting family life, (6) increased wealth.
500
The Sherman Antitrust Act was used to break up what monopoly owned by John D. Rockefeller in the early 1900s?
What was Standard Oil Company?