Immigration
Term for someone moving from one country into a new one:
What is immigration?
Type of housing that factory laborers lived in:
What are: tenements/tenement housing?
Thomas Edison is famous for creating this invention:
What is the light bulb?
Factory workers worked for ____ wages, and ____ rent.
What is: low wages, high rent
What time period was The Gilded Age in?
When was 1870-1910?
Term for discrimination based on someones native country:
What is nativism?
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Invention that advanced production and transportation of goods:
What is The Transcontinental Railroad?
What is: 12 hour shifts, 6 days a week?
What two things are the Gilded Age often remembered for?
What are:Growth and Advancements, and Greed and Inequality
How were immigrants usually depicted within political cartoons of the time?
What is: bad, racist, stereotypical, mean, etc
Average pay per hour during The Gilded Age:
What is 22 cents per hour?
Type of building that was built for the first time in The Gilded Age:
What are skyscrapers?
Event that caused the Haymarket Square Riot:
What is: two employee deaths
Definition of the word Gilded.
What is: covered in gold
What is the nickname for wealthy businessmen who got their money in a shady way?
What are "robber barons"?
This item of clothing was invented during the Gilded Age:
What are blue jeans?
What was the name of the factory that famously burned down?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
Writer who famously called this time period "The Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain?
What European group of people suffered the worst prejudice?
What are: Irish People?
Percentage of population that earned 33% of wealth at that time:
What is 2%?
This type of gun was invented during the Gilded Age, which would be a big asset in World War 1:
What is Machine Gun?
The age range of most child laborers:
What is 8-15 years old?
How many different presidents served during The Gilded Age?
What is: 7 presidents?