Innovations
Inventor of the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
Captain of the steel industry
Who is Carnegie?
Immigrants who came to the US through the East Coast first came through this entry point
What is Ellis Island (New York City)?
Term for investigative journalists who sought to uncovered corruption
What is Muckraker?
The head of the political machine is called this
What is boss?
Famous for her hair care products, this woman became the first African American female millionaire
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
Captain of the oil industry
Who is J.D. Rockefeller?
Immigrants who came to the US through the West Coast came through this entry point
What is Angel Island (San Francisco)?
Community centers that offered education, job training, and health services to poor immigrations
What are settlement houses?
This infamous political machine dominated Democratic politics in New York City
What is Tammany Hall?
This process made steel more cost-effective and mass-producible
What is Bessemer Process?
Captain of the railroad industry
Who is Vanderbilt?
Many new immigrants lived in these neighborhoods with people from their same home countries
What are ethnic enclaves?
First national labor union known for open membership: they allowed women, immigrants, and African Americans
What is Knights of Labor?
The most infamous political boss
The train route across the US that connected the East and West Coasts
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
When one company purchases all its competitors and controls an entire industry
What is horizontal integration?
This law forbid Chinese immigration to the United States
What is Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
The philosophy that each individual has a Christian duty to help the poor
Political cartoonist who exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed through his cartoons like "The Brains"
Who is Thomas Nast?
The first African American woman to receive a patent for the cabinet bed
A negative term for the great industrial leaders of the Gilded Age
What is Robber Barons?
A person who discriminates against new immigrants groups in defense of native citizens
What is nativist?
This group of people were involved in the Granger movement to reduce shipping and storage costs
Who are farmers?
Using political power to gain money through dishonest means
What is graft?