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Industrialization
Immigration
Urbanization
Monopolies
Inventions
100
This is the process by which countries change from agricultural societies to one based on manufacturing goods and services
What is industrialization
100
Most immigrants during the Gilded Age came from this continent
What is Europe
100
This is the process by which countries move from primarily rural societies to ones based in cities
What is urbanization
100
This is a business that controls an entire market or industry
What is a monopoly
100
Thomas Edison invented this
What is light bulb
200
The completion of this project connected the United States like never before and allowed for huge growth in industrialization
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
200
These kinds of factors are reasons that immigrants wanted to come to the United States during the Gilded Age (you may also give an example)
What are pull factors
200
Because cities grew so fast, many people, especially immigrants, were forced to move into these buildings
What are tenements
200

The reason big business owners created monopolies in their industries was to eliminate ________________

Competition

200
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell, this allows people to communicate with each other with out being in the same place
What is the telephone
300
Improved efficiency in this industry led to the growth of bridges and skyscrapers in cities
What is steel
300
Most immigrants lived in these buildings in large cities, they were often crowded and lacked indoor plumbing
What are tenements
300
Many cities grew because these places created jobs in urban areas
What are factories
300

This economic system allows entrepreneurs to start their own businesses

What is free market economy or capitalism

300
This kind of building allowed cities to grow up and not out
What are skyscrapers
400
This economic system, used in the United States, allowed for rapid growth and innovation during the Gilded Age
What is capitalism or market economy
400
These people were banned from coming to the United States in 1882
What are Chinese
400
Most immigrants went through this city when coming to the United States
New York City
400

This person had a monopoly in the oil industry

Who is John D. Rockefeller

400
This form of urban transportation, invented in 1888, is still used in San Francisco and used to be all over the city of Minneapolis
What are street cars
500
The growth in manufacturing and industrialization in part caused the depreciation in the value of this land after the Civil War
What is southern farms or plantations
500
The vast majority of immigrants came through this island to get into the United States
What is Ellis Island
500

This city in the Midwest went from just under 300,000 people in 1870 to over 2.7 million in 1920

What is Chicago

500
These three men corrupted the presidential office and had more money than the 40 richest people in the world today combined
Who are Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan
500
This process allowed steel to be made much quicker and cheaper than ever before, and allowed Andrew Carnegie to become the richest man in modern history
What is the Bessemer Process