Economic Change
Social Change
Immigration
Native Americans In The Gilded Age
Trivia
100
This is the economic theory that government should not interfere in the economy.
What is Laissez Faire?
100
In this process many immigrants and Native Americans were pressured to speak English and adapt to European American Culture.
What is Assimilation ?
100
In this process, millions of people from Southern and Eastern Europe permanently left their country.
What is emigration?
100
In this series of conflict the U.S. Government battled Native tribes for land.
What are the Indian Wars?
100
This was the name of Jacob Riis' popular book about life in cities.
What is "How The Other Half Lives?"
200
Industrialists like John D. Rockefeller used this business practice to gain total control of an industry, eliminating competition and setting prices without restraint.
What is a monopoly?
200
This theory of "survival of the fittest”, or the belief that successful people are innately better than others became popular in the Gilded Age.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This belief system caused many Jewish people in Russia to flee to the United States.
What is antisemitism?
200
At this boarding school, Native American children were forced to adopt European American clothing, food and language.
What is the Carlisle School?
200
This famous American Author first coined the phrase Gilded Age.
Who is Mark Twain?
300
Passed in 1890, this type of law was the first attempt by the U.S. government to regulate trusts and limit the power of monopolies, though it was weakly enforced at fir
What is antitrust?
300
In the Gilded Age farming was mechanized, therefore many people went to work in these places.
What are factories?
300
What is Angel Island?
300
Under this law the government sold Native American land to non-native people, ultimately destroying tribal unity.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
This powerful business leader made his fortune in the steel industry and later gave away much of his wealth to build libraries and schools.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
Many business owners embraced this theory which led to unsafe working conditions in factories and unsanitary living conditions in cities.
What is laissez faire?
400
In order to accommodate millions of people moving to cities or urban areas, these one room, windowless apartment were built.
What are tenements?
400
This is the process of permanently settling in a new country.
What is immigration?
400
This was one main purpose of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Forced assimilation.
400
This company recently won an antitrust case.
What is Google?
500
Supporters of laissez-faire policies often justified economic inequality during the Gilded Age by using this idea, adapted from Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, to claim that only the “fittest” businesses should survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
As a result of new technologies and the mechanization of farming, fewer people worked in this industry and began working factories.
What is agriculture or Farming?
500
Millions of people moved in from these regions of Europe in the period 1877-1914.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
500
He was the superintendent and founder of the Carlisle School.
Who is Richard Pratt?
500
This tycoon dominated the oil industry by creating the Standard Oil Trust, which controlled over 90% of U.S. oil production by the 1880s.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?