Gilded Age Terms
It meant "hands off" and that govt would stay out of businesses.
Laissez-faire
This man ran Tamany Hall in NY and took many bribes.
Willaim "Boss" Tweed
This invention extended the working hours. (produced light)
The Lightbulb
These were terrible apartment buildings
Tenements
Formed to improve working conditions of corporate employees
Labor Unions
This man owned the majority of the oil industry
Rockefeller
This man ran the steel industry and was known to give donations to many people.
Andrew Carnegie
This man invented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
These kinds of workers were exploited during the Giled Age (came over from a different country...)
Immigrants
This president fought to create anti-trust laws
Teddy Roosevelt
This term is the plural version of "Monopoly"
Trust
This person exposed Child Labor during the Gilded Age
Lewis Hine
This allowed communication through the use of morse code
immigrants who came from Europe arrived at-
Ellis Island
This was the first anti-immigrant Law
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This is the event in a certain square of a city where a bomb went off
Haymarket Square Riot
This person exposed the meat packing facilities in America
Upton Sinclair
Who improved the process of creating automobiles?
Henry Ford
This is the island that immigrants came to in California
Angel Island
These were journalists who exposed corruption
Muckrakers
This is what the period of corruption was in the US where most people were struggling, but there were ultra wealthy elite that made it look good on the surface
Gilded Age
This was the owner of the company town in Illinois which lead to a strike where about 70 people died
Pullman
This person is responsible for pioneering AC current electricity
Nikolai Tesla
This person exposed the living conditions in cities
Jacob Riis
This was created to protect food and medicine consumption
The Pure Food and Drug Act