Robber Barons
Robber Baron is one way to look at them, but if they foster the ideals of the American Dream you might call them this.
Captains of Industry
These factors are what drive people to immigrate.
Push/Pull factors
Unions helped to make the work day in America this many hours.
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Muckrakers are this kind of journalists
What are investigative journalists?
He paid his workers five dollars an hour and made cars affordable to the middle class.
Henry Ford
From humble Scottish roots, this person rose to become king of U.S. Steel, and represented the classic American "rags to riches" story.
Andrew Carnegie
This 1882 law prohibited workers from immigrating to the United States.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Derogatory term given to replacement workers who cross the picket lines during a strike.
Scabs
Upton Sinclair wrote this book that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
The Jungle
This process of factory work simplified and revolutionized the work place by having workers perform the same task over and over.
The Assembly Line
The term for controlling an entire industry.
Monopoly
Immigrants often worked in factories and shops that had very poor working conditions and were commonly known as this.
Sweatshop
This holiday celebrates the contributions of workers.
What is Labor Day?
This muckraker wrote How the Other Half Lives.
Jacob Riis
This was the first car made affordable for the average working person.
The Ford Model T
John D. Rockefeller earned his money, and eventually had a monopoly, in this business.
Oil
In 1883, Emma Lazarus penned this poem that would later be inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
"The New Colossus"
This strike in 1892 united skilled and unskilled workers at one of Andrew Carnegie's steel plants in Pennsylvania.
The Homestead Strike
This journalist is responsible for breaking the Harvey Weinstein story, which led to the #metoo movement.
Ronan Farrow
The rise of prices over time, known as this, has made it difficult for Americans to achieve and sustain a middle class lifestyle.
Inflation
This Robber Baron was the wealthiest banker in America during the Gilded Age.
Who is JP Morgan?
The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed at the end of this year.
1943
Critics of unions say it leads to this, when companies close factories in America and reopen in other countries.
What is outsourcing?
This woman's reporting led to the government breaking up the Standard Oil monopoly
Who is Ida Tarbell?
These 6 signs indicate that you are a member of the middle class.
1) Home ownership
2) car ownership
3) college for your kids
4) retirement security,
5) health care coverage
6) family vacation.