Rich People
Muckrakers and Progressivism
Immigration
100

When someone is described as being selfish with their monopoly and money, but also does not treat their workers fairly

Robber Baron

100

This person faked having amnesia to gain admittance to an asylum and expose inhuman practices there

Nellie Bly

100

A belief that people born in a country are superior to immigrants

Nativism

200

"J.P. Morgan earned the respect of others by financially helping the American economy navigate a financial crisis." This describes J.P. Morgan as a __________

Captain of Industry

200

Who sought to expose Rockefeller's monopoly: the Standard Oil Company

Ida Tarbell

200
This Act blocked many immigrants from a country in 1882 from entering the United States

Chinese Exclusion Act

300

What was Rockefeller's primary industry and source of wealth

Oil

300

John Spargo was concerned with what issue specifically?

Child Labor

300

Immigrants entering the United States from Europe primarily came through this place?

Ellis Island

400
Carnegie's employees got upset with his pay cuts which resulted in his workers responding by refusing to work called this

Strike, (Homestead Strike of 1892)

400

Who helped create awareness for sanitary food and helped inspire the Pure Food and Drug Act?

Upton Sinclair

400

What might be a pull factor for Chinese to enter the United States?

Job opportunities, Gold Rush, Railroad work, new living arrangements and opportunities for education

500

What is one piece of evidence to suggest that Vanderbilt was a Robber Baron?

Money-driven - "Obsessed with the idea of money-making"

Not Empathetic - sent family members to an asylum

Controlling - eliminated all competition or accepted bribes

500

Who wrote How the Other Half Lives, photographing American tenement life for immigrants

Jacob Riis

500

This was the island on the West Coast where immigrants from Asia and the Oceania entered during the Gilded Age

Angel Island

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