Vocabulary
In Urbanization, people are moving away from these areas and into urban areas.
What is rural?
This man was sent by the US Army to protect American Settlers in the Black Hills.
Who is George Custer?
Living here, many immigrants shared overcrowded rooms of poor quality.
What are tenements?
Many workers for the Central Pacific Railroad were this nationality.
What is Chinese?
This man was one of the richest men in US history, personally owning ~1.5% of the US GDP.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
Followers of this ideology believe that foreign born, non-white people should not be in America.
What is Nativism?
This Act was intended to assimilate Native Americans into US Culture.
What was the Dawes Act?
How the Other Half Lives described what life was like for the poorest people in society at this time, written by this man.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Beginning in this city, the Union Pacific company built the rail line from East to West.
What is Omaha, Nebraska?
Noted for his Philanthropy, Andrew Carnegie is estimated to have given away about this percentage of his wealth before his death.
What is 90%?
What is 1882?
The Sioux Tribes, after the treaty at Ft. Laramie, lived primarily in this state.
What is South Dakota?
Breaker Boys in coal mines was a prominent example of this practice.
What is Child Labor?
Located in this state, Promontory Point was where the two lines met to complete the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Utah?
Cornelius Vanderbilt gained his wealth through this.
What is the Railroad Industry?
Ellis Island, a location outside of this city, was the most used immigration checkpoint in America until it was closed.
What is New York City?
At wounded Knee, this many Men, Women, and Children were massacred.
What is over 150?
The posterchild for lack of regulation, this industry was a target in the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
What is the meat packing industry?
Known as this, temporary towns would frequently follow railroad workers to provide goods and services, often with violent and chaotic atmospheres.
What are Hell of Wheels towns?
This man used his substantial personal wealth to bail out the US Government.
Who is JP Morgan?
Social Darwinism believes that rich people have succeeded because of this.
What is because they are inherently better than everyone else?
In response to the Ghost Dance movement, this Sioux leader was killed while the Army was attempting to arrest him.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This was the Average wage of 91% of families in the Gilded Age.
What is $380?
This chemical compound was used to blast through thick stone.
What is Nitroglycerine?
In the Gilded Age, this many of the wealthiest families held about the same amount of wealth as the other 11.6 million families.
What is 4000?