Westward Expansion
This railroad connected the East and West
Transcontinental Railroad
This city is known as the steel capital of the world
Pittsburgh, PA
Immigration station on the East Coast
Ellis Island
The first _________ were built to accommodate for the growing city population
skyscrapers
Small and cramped apartments in the city
tenements
The Transcontinental railroad was completed in what year and in which state?
1869, Utah
What is it called when one company has control over an entire industry?
Monopoly
Immigration station on the West Coast
Angel Island
This sport became extremely popular during the Gilded Age
baseball
Houses where the poor and recent immigrants could go for help
Settlement Houses
This group was moved onto reservations as more and more people moved West
Native Americans
This process allowed for the mass production of steel
Bessemer process
"Old Immigrants" were from Western and Northern Europe, while "New Immigrants" were from...
Southern and Eastern Europe
New modes of transportation in the city included electric ______ and elevated ________
trolleys, trains
Used flash photography to capture images of the tenements in the dark
Jacob Riis
This invention allowed ranchers to herd cattle more efficiently
barbed wire
This man had a monopoly on the Oil Industry
John D. Rockefeller
Upon Entering Ellis island, immigrants went through a _________ inspection
medical
A common labor practice at the time was to employ ____________ to work in the factories with dangerous machinery
Children
Founded Hull House
Jane Addams
This was the name of the general who died and whose whole army was wiped out at Little Big Horn
George Armstrong Custer
Andrew Carnegie was from this country
Scotland
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in which year?
1882
The Great __________ fire in 1871 destroyed 3 square miles of the city and left 18,000 people homeless
Chicago
Act passed in 1901 improved living conditions in the cities
Tenement Act