Founded the Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller
Name given to the last decades of the 19th century because it was characterized by a facade of prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
Location where over 70% of immigrants came from during the Gilded Age.
Where is southern and eastern Europe?
Programs that encouraged assimilation of immigrants into American culture, often provided through settlement houses.
What is the Americanization movement?
Had the largest steel company in the world during the Gilded Age.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
Where the transcontinental railroad connected.
What is Promontory Point, UT?
Type of factor for leaving a location, such as religious persecution and war.
What are push factors?
He was the founder of the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
This city includes the locations of both the Haymarket Riot and Pullman Strike.
Where is Chicago?
Shipping and railroad tycoon during the Gilded Age.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Where Thomas Edison opened the first research laboratory.
What is Menlo Park, New Jersey?
System of consolidating many firms in the same business.
What is horizontal integration?
The 2 most popular sports during the Gilded Age.
What is baseball and boxing?
This action of the government promoted Americans to buy domestic goods.
Who is a protective tarriff?