Gilded Age

Immigration

100

Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.

What is a New Immigrant?

200

A type of art used to get people talking about current issues.

What is a political cartoon?

300

Reasons many people chose to come to America.

What is for a better life/better job?

400

This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

500

A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?

What is nativism?

Urbanization

100

Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;

What are tenements?

200

Super tall buildings made of steel. Cities could have large populations.

What are skyscrapers?

300

A place where many people worked in cities for long hours and in unsafe conditions for little pay.

What are Factories?

400

Transportation that allowed people to quickly and safely cross the country.

What is the railroad?

500

The growth of cities due to the influx of people?

What is Urbanization?

Robber Barons

100

The richest man to ever live.

Who is John Rockefeller?

200

He gave away most of his wealth to the building of libraries and other social goods.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

300

Believed that sheep were awful for the land and wanted to get rid of sheep farming.

Who are Ranch Barons?

400

Wealthy businessmen who used unfair methods to build their fortune.

Who is a robber baron?

500

Got his start in banking and then bought out others to become a robber baron.

Who is J.P. Morgan?

Review: Previous Units

100

What day were terrorists attacks taken out against the World Trade Center and Pentagon?

What is September 11, 2001?

200

Government act granting 160 acres to people willing to live on the land for 5 years.

What is the Homestead Act?

300

Lakota leader who died September 5, 1877 at Camp Robinson, Nebraska.

Who was Crazy Horse?

400

A device used to help someone understand when different events happened visually.

What is a timeline?

500

Towns that appeared quickly where ever gold was discovered. (Deadwood is an example.)

What are Boomtowns?

Good Luck

100

The time period identified by great wealth but also extensive poverty.

What is The Gilded Age?

200

Person who invented the first mass-produced automobile.

Who is Henry Ford?

300

Type of art that focused on the beauty of nature.

What is Hudson River School of Art?

400

Dye used to make blue jeans- blue.

What is indigo?

500

Place where many Native American children were forced to go.

What is Boarding Schools?