Gilded Age

Vocab

100

This term refers to the feelings of people who were anti-immigrant during the Gilded Age

Nativism

200

Term that means hands off government

Laissez-Faire

300

This term means the growth of cities

Urbanization

400

This group of people traveled westward to Kansas to escape persecution and dangerous extremists  

Exodusters

500

This term refers to the idea that multiple cultures were blended together during the late 1800s

Melting Pot

Robber Barons

100

This Robber baron is most associated with oil

John D. Rockefeller

200

This Robber Baron helped bail out the U.S Government

J.P Morgan

300

This Robber Baron gained his wealth through shipping via railroads and boats

Cornelius Vanderbilt

400

This Robber Baron believed in the Gospel of Wealth, donating money to help the poor, schools, and other big institutions 

Andrew Carnegie

500

Name of the home owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt

Biltmore Mansion

Inventions

100

Inventor of the Improved Steam Engine

James Watt

200

Name of the invention that revolutionized the cotton industry and single handedly increased the slave trade prior to the Civil War

Cotton Gin

300

Name of the inventor that invented the advanced steel making process, making the production of steel faster and more affordable

Henry Bessemer

400

The inventor of the assembly line, Model T, and the 40 hour work week

Henry Ford

500

Inventor of the small pox vaccination

Edward Jenner

Monopolies

100

The name of the oil monopoly that owned 90% of oil production in the U.S

Standard Oil

200

Name of the steel monopoly before it was bought by a ruthless banker

Carnegie Steel

300

This monopoly was designed to generate electricity and was made by J.P Morgan 

General Electric 

400

This type of monopoly is where the owner buys all companies that compete with it, taking full control of the market

Horizontal Integration 

500

Type of monopoly where the Owner buys all different companies that help make his/her end product

Vertical Integration

Events and Life in the Gilded Age

100

Name of the major waystation that welcomed Eastern European immigrants to the United States

Ellis Island 

200

When workers were fed up of working 12-14 hour shifts for little to no pay, they did this

Strike

300

Name of living spaces where many immigrants and working class would live

Tenement Apartments

400

Location of the Golden Spike

Promontory Point

500

Law made to stop Chinese Immigration in 1882

Chinese Exclusion Act 1882