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What process made steel cheaper and more abundant?
What is the Bessemer process?
What was the first major nationwide labor strike?
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
What was a push factor for immigrants in the 1800s?
What is famine or persecution?
What were tenements?
What are crowded, poorly built apartments where many immigrants lived?
Who were the “Captains of Industry”?
Who are influential businessmen like Carnegie and Rockefeller?
What powered factories after steam engines?
What is electric power?
Which strike involved the Homestead Steel Works?
What is the Homestead Strike?
Which ethnic group faced the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Who are Chinese immigrants?
Name one public health crisis caused by rapid urbanization.
What is cholera or typhoid fever?
How did corporations influence the economy?
What is they dominated markets and limited competition?
Name one invention that changed farming in the Gilded Age.
What is the mechanical reaper?
What was one goal of the American Federation of Labor?
What is to achieve better wages and working conditions for skilled workers?
What is an ethnic enclave?
What is a neighborhood where immigrants from the same culture live and work together?
What did Tammany Hall provide to immigrants?
What are services like jobs and housing in exchange for votes?
What is vertical integration?
What is controlling every step of production from raw materials to final product?
What did the Bessemer process improve?
What is steel production?
What was the primary goal of the Knights of Labor?
What is to promote the rights and interests of all workers, regardless of skill level, race, or gender?
Millions were drawn to the U.S. during this period by job opportunities in factories, the chance to own land, and the promise of political and religious freedom.
What is the Gilded Age?
What was one social issue caused by overcrowding in cities?
What is public health crises?
What effect did overproduction have on small farmers?
What is it drove down prices and led to financial distress?
How did mechanization affect wheat production?
What is it increased output and lowered labor costs?
Name one major outcome of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
What is the introduction of stricter fire safety regulations?
What was the significance of Ellis Island?
What is it served as the main entry point for immigrants to the U.S.?
How did the Great Chicago Fire illustrate urban challenges?
What is it highlighted the dangers of rapid urbanization and inadequate public services?
How did the rise of corporations affect labor rights?
What is it limited workers' bargaining power and led to the need for unions?