Inventions
Created the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
A group of people demanding better working conditions.
What is a Labor Union?
This banned all Chinese immigrants from entering the United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists who were seen as the greedy rich people.
Robber Barrons
The workforce of the Industrial Revolution was largely made up of this group of people.
What are immigrants?
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
These people invented the Airplane
Who are the Wright Brothers?
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________ (Hint: Like the board game)
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
This person controlled the Railroad Industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This was the term applied to wealthy industry owners who were seen as doing good for society.
Captains of Industry
New immigrants came from these regions in Europe
South and East
People who dislike immigrants and prefer "Native-Born" Americans are called this.
What are nativists?
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the telephone
_________ coined the term Gilded Age, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath. (hint: its what period/era we are studying)
Who is Mark Twain?
This person controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost (160 acres)
What is the Homestead Act?
European Immigrants came through this immigration station
What is Elis Island?
Double Jeopardy
One religion of new immigrants not predominant existing in the U.S. prior to the gilded age
Jewish, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic
Name an immigrant group that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are the Irish or the Chinese?
the growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery/industry
What is industrialization?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
What is Urbanization?
When one company tries to control all the suppliers into their production process
What is Vertical Integration?
Term used to describe buying similar companies to reduce competition
What is Horizontal Integration?
This innovation in factories created a more efficient production of goods, making goods cheaper and more widely available to Americans (______ line)
What is an assembly line?
Double Jeopardy
a type of building shared by multiple dwellings. Typlically unkept and unsanitary during this time period.
What is a tenement?
Who is J.P. Morgan?
The Theory that the government had no right to intervene in business or society.
What is social Darwinism
The process of newcomers adopting the customs and culture of their new country, often involving changes in language, dress, and traditions?
What is Assimilation?
a business strategy that allows a company to control the supply chain from manufacturing to sales.
What is Vertical Integration?
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States by connecting it to the east?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
A common technique used by labor unions, where groups of employees refuse to work until their demands are met, is called ___________.
What is a strike?
This Gilded Age industry owner is known as the father of philanthropy
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
What are Exodusters?
Term for a person who gives money to charities. Think of Carnegie.
What is a Philanthropist?
2 part:
a. Elis island is located here
b. Angel island is located here
a. New York
b. San Francisco