His lightbulb had great impact because it enabled factory work to continue after sunset, increasing industrialization.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Located in New York, it served as a reception center for incoming immigrants to America.
What is Ellis Island?
100
This event featured a strike of railroad workers, a boycott of railroad cars, and led to a court injunction and the use of federal troops.
What is the Pullman Strike?
100
This was a list of workers who were believed to be union members. Employers would not hire them.
What are blacklists?
100
You see him? That's the political cartoonist who exposed boss Tweed and brought him down.
Who is Thomas Nast?
200
This businessman benefitted from the "Bessemer Process", and made his fortune in the steel industry. He also believed in the "Gospel of Wealth", meaning that he wanted to use his money to help others in need.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
Many immigrants lived in these small, overcrowded, unsanitary apartments.
What are tenements?
200
Employers would often require workers to sign these, meaning that they were forbidden from joining a labor union.
What are yellow-dog contracts?
200
This Act basically ended the abuses of the spoils system, meaning that applicants for government jobs now had to take a civil service exam.
What is the Pendleton Act?
200
That's the idea that only the strong businesses will survive. It's basically a way to justify the wealth that big business owners had during the Gilded Age.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
He was sentenced to ten years in prison, as he was the leader of the American Railway Union and led the Pullman Strike of 1894.
Who is Eugene Debs?
300
New York City was the location of this political machine during the late 19th century. It was led by boss William Tweed, and dominated politics there for quite some time.
What is Tammany Hall?
300
These work conditions were characterized as dirty, poorly ventilated, and dangerous.
What are "sweatshop" conditions?
300
This 1890 law helped protect competition by making monopolies illegal. Unfortunately it was not really enforced until President Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
That's the french term meaning "leave alone". Business owners believed in this because they did not want the government to regulate business.
What is laissez-faire?
400
This man documented the poor living and working conditions of immigrants and poor workers in his book, "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
Many Americans tended to be suspicious of immigrants, and these areas that they lived in. They were characterized as areas where immigrants from a certain region or country tended to live together due to their common culture.
What are ethnic ghettos?
400
When this finance capitalist bought Carnegie's steel company, it made Carnegie the richest man in the world.
Who is JP Morgan?
400
This labor union's influence ended with the tragedy at the Haymarket Square Riot.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
400
That terrible Act passed in 1882, which was a result of Nativism. It wasn't repealed until 1943, and it targeted mainly the Chinese.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
She played an important role in opening and running Chicago's Hull House, which was a settlement house for poor and immigrants who needed help.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
On May 4, 1886, a riot ensued in this location after a bomb exploded during a demonstration for an 8 hour workday. As a result, the public perceived unions as violent.
What is Haymarket Square?
500
Writer Mark Twain referred to the age of industrialization as this, due to the small layer of wealth that covered the corruption and greed of the time.
What is the Gilded Age?
500
This act was created in 1887 to give the federal government the power to regulate any business that traveled from state to state.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
That crazy name given to Republicans who switched sides and voted for Democrat Grover Cleveland in the election of 1884. I guess honesty does pay off.