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. (Old Immigrants or New Immigrants)

What is a New Immigrant?

200

Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process.

What is the Angel Island?

300

Programs, helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.

What is Americanization/Assimilation 

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

Term for anti-immigration feelings held by some Americans during the Gilded Age. 

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

Built upward. Tall buildings. Enabled cities to have large populations.

What are skyscrapers?

300

a person who moves from an agricultural area to city.

Who are rural-to-urban migrants?

400

What was the main pull factor that drew immigrants into cities?

Availability of jobs

500

The growth of cities due to the influx of people?

What is Urbanization?

Robber Barons

100

When one company dominates an entire industry or product. 

What is Monopoly

200

He had an oil monopoly. Founded the company Standard Oil. 

Who is Rockefeller

300

Scottish born immigrant who had a steel monopoly. 

Who is Carnegie 

400

He had a railroad and shipping monopoly.

Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt

500

He dominated the world of banking and finance. 

Who is JP Morgan

Inventors & Inventions

100

Invented the first functioning plane.

Who are the Wright Bros

200

One of America's most famous inventors (lightbulb, phonograph, etc)

Who is Edison

300

Invented the telephone. 

Who is Bell

400

Famous for his Model T and the assembly line. 

Who is Henry Ford

500

This invention enabled a 24/7 work cycle. 

What is the lightbulb. 

Good Luck

100

Gave free land to settlers who moved west. 

What is the Homestead Act

200

People of all different nationalities blended to create a single culture.

What is a Melting Pot?

300

Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.

What is the Gilded Age?

400

"Survival of the fittest" 

What is social darwinism

500

Process that made manufacturing steel cheaper and faster. 

What is the Bessemer Process