The Titans
This man used vertical integration to dominate the steel industry. He also wrote the "Gospel of Wealth."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
He coined the term "Gilded Age" to describe a society that looked gold on the outside but was rotten underneath.
Who was Mark Twain?
This union, led by Samuel Gompers, only accepted skilled workers.
What was the AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
Thomas Edison created this device that allowed factories to stay open and run at night.
What is the (electric) lightbulb?
The completion of this in 1869 triggered the Gilded Age's massive economic growth.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This "Standard Oil" founder used Horizontal Integration to control 90% of the oil market.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This pseudo-scientific theory applied the idea "Survival of the Fittest" to humans and business.
What is Social Darwinism?
This inclusive union’s reputation was destroyed following the violent Haymarket Riot in 1886.
What was the KOL (Knights of Labor)?
To prevent crashes and coordinate passenger and shipping schedules, the railroads created these in 1883.
What are time zones?
Jacob Schiff coordinated this to divert Jewish immigrants away from crowded East Coast tenements to the American interior.
What was the Galveston Plan?
He was the nation’s most powerful banker and created U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar company.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This journalist’s book, How the Other Half Lives, used photography to expose tenement conditions.
Who was Jacob Riis?
This is the process where a union negotiates with an employer as a single group rather than as individuals.
What is collective bargaining?
Beyond the railroad, the growth of Big Business was fueled by this legal arrangement where stockholders assign their shares to a single board of directors.
What is a trust (or monopoly)?
This myth, named after a popular 19th-century author, suggested that any poor boy could achieve wealth through "luck and pluck."
What is the Horatio Alger myth?
Long before he owned trains, this man earned the nickname The Commodore because he commanded a massive fleet of steamboats.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
These overcrowded, dark, and often dangerous apartment buildings housed the urban poor.
What were tenements?
This strike was crushed when the U.S. Army was sent in because it "interfered with the U.S. Mail."
What was the Pullman Strike?
This invention used the Morse Code to send messages across wires, allowing railroads and businesses to communicate across the country in minutes.
What was the telegraph?
This court order requires workers to stop striking and return to work.
What is an injunction?
This luxury train car inventor built a company town where he controlled his workers' rent and groceries.
Who is George Pullman?
New immigrants primarily came from these two regions of Europe after 1880.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
This was the name for the private detective agency hired by Henry Clay Frick to break the Homestead Strike.
Who were the Pinkertons?
This specific process made steel production cheap and fast, fueling the Gilded Age boom.
What is the Bessemer Process?
We looked at Gilded Age summer homes (mansions) located in this place.
Where is Newport, RI (also will accept Rhode Island)