People
This person was convicted of stealing about $25 million to $45 million dollars in 1877. It was later found out that they stole an estimated amount of $200 million dollars.
Boss Tweed
Muckrakers
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act
A continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa
Transcontinental Railroad
relating to or supporting the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Nativists
This person dominated the oil Industry and was a well known Robber Baron.
John D. Rockefeller
This book was written by Upton Sinclair that investigated the working conditions of the meat industry.
The Jungle
This act prevented adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
Meat Inspection Act
Large companies that controlled an industry or a sector, giving them the ability to control the prices of the goods and services they provided.
Monopoly
A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
Tenements
This person created the Hull House to help Immigrants move to America.
Jane Addams
This was the time of great political corruption and wealth inequality in the late 1800's.
The Gilded Age
A bloody confrontation that ensued between the workers and the hired Pinkerton security guards, ultimately killing 16 people and causing many injuries.
Homestead Strike
Successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical.
Robber Baron
The busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. Located in New York.
Ellis Island.
This person helped create the oil industry and became extremely rich by age 30.
Andrew Carnegie
a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives—money, political jobs.
Political Machines
A federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace
Sherman Antitrust Act
A business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way
Captain of Industry
Organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources
Settlement Houses
This person was a journalist and social reformer who publicized the crisis in housing, education, and poverty in NYC.
Jacob Riis
an economic philosophy that advocates for minimal government interference in the economy.
Laissez-faire economics
The most famous and far reaching labor conflict in a period of severe economic depression and social unrest.
Pullman Strike
The first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel.
Bessemer Process
The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
Urbanization