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Hodgepodge
100

Founded the Standard Oil Company

Who is John D. Rockefeller

100
Location of the busiest receiving station for immigrants in the United States.
What is Ellis Island, NY?
100
Complete control of a product or service in the economic market.
What is a monopoly?
100
The growth of cities and the movement of people to cities.
What is urbanization?
100
Name given to the last decades of the 19th century because it was characterized by a facade of prosperity?
What is the Gilded Age?
200
He developed a process for making stronger and lighter steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
200

Location where over 70% of immigrants came from during the Gilded Age.

Where is southern and eastern Europe?

200
A low cost multi-family dwelling, often overcrowded and unsanitary.
What is a tenement?
200

Programs that encouraged assimilation of immigrants into American culture, often provided through settlement houses.

What is the Americanization movement?

200
Law that banned entry of all Chinese to the United States with few exceptions.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300

Had the largest steel company in the world during the Gilded Age.

Who is Andrew Carnegie

300
Where the transcontinental railroad connected.
What is Promontory Point, UT?
300
Economic/political philosophy that favors public control of property and income.
What is socialism?
300
Economic policies which allow businesses to operate with minimal government regulation or interference.
What is laissez-faire?
300
1890 law that banned any trust that restrained interstate commerce or trade.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
400

He was the founder of the American Federation of Labor.

Who is Samuel Gompers?

400

Which city includes the locations of both the Haymarket Riot and Pullman Strike?

What is Chicago?

400
Theory that said that wealth and success were indicators that certain races were superior to others.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
Tendency to favor American born people over new immigrants.
What is nativism?
400
System of consolidating companies involved in all steps of a product's manufacture.
What is vertical integration?
500

Shipping and railroad tycoon during the Gilded Age.

Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?

500

Where Thomas Edison opened the first research laboratory.

What is Menlo Park, New Jersey?

500

System of consolidating many firms in the same business.

What is horizontal integration?

500

What was one of the 2 most popular sports during the Gilded Age?

What is baseball and boxing?

500

This action of the government promoted Americans to buy domestic goods. 

Who is a protective tarriff?

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