Politics
This political boss controlled Tammany Hall and was known for corruption in New York City.
Who was Boss Tweed?
This industrialist used the Bessemer Process to monopolize the steel industry and later became a major philanthropist.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This immigration station in New York took in over 2.3 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954.
What was Ellis Island?
This inventor changed America with the electric light bulb and other innovations.
Who was Thomas Edison?
This photojournalist’s work including How the Other Half Lives showed the bad living conditions of tenements.
Who was Jacob Riis?
Passed in 1890 this act aimed to stop monopolies and add more competition in business.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
These wealthy industrialists were exploiting workers and resources for personal wealth.
What were Robber Barons?
These urban housing structures were common for immigrants and the poor during the Gilded Age.
What were tenements?
This industrial innovation allowed for the mass production of steel resulting in growth in railroads and construction.
What was the Bessemer Process?
This novel by Upton Sinclair revealed unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry, leading to the Meat Inspection Act.
What was The Jungle?
These organizations helped immigrants find jobs and housing in exchange for their political support.
What were political machines?
This economic policy meaning let do wanted the government should not interfere with business.
What was laissez-faire economics?
These community centers like Jane Addams' Hull House provided help to immigrants and the poor.
What were settlement houses?
This term describes Americans who were against immigration and thought people born in America were better.
What were nativists?
This 1886 labor protest in Chicago turned violent after a bomb exploded, negatively affecting the public perception of unions.
What was the Haymarket Strike?
This 1882 law was the first to restrict immigration based on nationality targeting a specific group.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Completed in 1869, this massive project linked the East and West coasts
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe arrived in large numbers during the Gilded Age.
Who were the New Immigrants?
A philanthropist and a leader in the oil industry this industrialist had an oil monopoly.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This violent 1892 conflict between steelworkers and Pinkerton agents weakened union power in the steel industry.
What was the Homestead Strike?
This tragic 1911 fire led to workplace safety laws including fire escape and worker's rights protection.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This nationwide 1894 labor strike disrupted railroads and required federal intervention to end it.
What was the Pullman Strike?
This term describes the growth of cities during the Gilded Age because of industrialization and migration.
What was urbanization?
This Chicago reformer founded Hull House to give help to immigrants.
Who was Jane Addams?
Reformers of this era aimed to expose corruption, unsafe working conditions, and social injustices through investigative journalism.
Who were muckrakers?