Science & Technology
The ore (metal) needed to produce steel.
What is iron?
The complete and total control of a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
The immigration processing center on the east coast in the harbor of New York City.
What is Ellis Island?
Dense urban buildings built using steel.
What are skyscrapers?
The form of light entertainment theater that began during the Gilded Age, which included dancers, musicians, comedians, and a circus-like flair.
What is Vaudeville?
The inventor of the modern assembly line and a contributor to the automotive industry.
Who is Henry Ford?
This worker strike shut down the railroads and ended in violence.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Programs aimed at immigrants to teach English, American culture, dress, diet, and helped contribute to the idea of a “melting pot.”
What is Americanization?
The name given to people who leave the countryside and farming for steady employment in cities.
What is a Rural-to-Urban Migrant?
Spread of transportation, communication, and advertising leads to Americans all buying the same products, leading to the rich and poor owning similar products.
What is mass culture?
The inventor of the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Owning all aspects of production in order to lower to costs of production.
What is vertical integration?
He disagreed with Booker T. Washington's approach to African American equality and upliftment.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This bacterial infection was common in many tenements during the Gilded Age.
What is Cholera?
People want and buy new products to show wealth and status, creating a new middle and upper class.
What is conspicuous consumerism?
The inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
An economic and political system that values public, instead of private, owner of property and economy.
What is Socialism?
The region of Europe where the "New Immigrants" came from.
What is Eastern & Southern Europe?
Founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
The name of early jazz formed during the Gilded Age.
What is ragtime?
The British man who is credited with the Bessemer Process.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
Leader of the Pullman Strike and Socialist presidential candidate.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
Susan B. Anthony's lifelong friend and fellow suffragette who helped during the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
He designed Central Park in New York City and helped develop the public spaces and parks of America.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
The two most famous Mark Twain novels surrounding the same characters and life in Mississippi in the antebellum period.
What is Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)?