Key People
This woman founded Hull House in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This poem—The New Colossus—welcomed immigrants to America.
What is the poem on the Statue of Liberty?
He was the head of Tammany Hall.
Who is Boss Tweed?
Term used to describe wealthy industrialists who later donated large sums of money.
What is philanthropic?
This muckraker exposed John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This law allowed Native Americans to exchange tribal land for U.S. citizenship.
What is the Dawes Act?
This ethnic group was strongly assisted by Tammany Hall for political loyalty.
Who were the Irish?
Roosevelt’s plan saying government should regulate business to protect the public.
What is the New Nationalism?
Many called the era “Gilded” because a few were rich, but many lived in these conditions.
What is poor, unsafe, overcrowded urban life?
This photographer wrote How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This legislation broke up business monopolies like Standard Oil.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
These immense, crowded living spaces housed many poor immigrants.
What are tenements?
This act restricted Chinese immigration for decades.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These journalists documented child labor and factory dangers.
Who were Lewis Hine and other muckrakers?
This author argued that America was “gilded,” masking problems beneath wealth.
Who is Mark Twain?
This movement led by Du Bois pushed for civil rights and helped develop the NAACP.
What is the Niagara Movement?
The political machine Tammany Hall operated in this city.
What is New York City?
This group of investigative journalists exposed corruption and social problems.
Who were the muckrakers?
This university was partially funded by John D. Rockefeller.
What is the University of Chicago?
This Progressive leader believed education and job skills—not protest—were the path forward for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This novel revealed horrific conditions in America’s meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
The term for “hands-off” government, allowing businesses to operate without regulation.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This future president gained fame for cracking down on trusts and promoting conservation.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Give one example of why the era was “Gilded,” meaning shiny on the outside but corrupt underneath.
Examples: political corruption, poor working conditions, monopolies, child labor, slums.