Strikes
This 1877 railroad strike began after railroad companies cut workers' wages.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
This muckraker photographed and wrote about poverty and terrible living conditions in New York City tenements in his book "How The Other Half Lives".
Who is Jacob Riis?
Thomas Edison is famous for improving and commercializing this invention, which provided a practical source of electric light.
What is the light bulb?
This law prohibited most Chinese immigrants from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and wrote The Gospel of Wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This violent labor conflict occurred at Carnegie Steel's Homestead plant in Pennsylvania.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This investigative journalist exposed the unfair business practices of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Alexander Graham Bell is best known for developing this invention.
What is the telephone?
This book exposed dangerous and unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This businessman became famous for controlling much of the oil industry through Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This strike began when workers at the --- Company protested wage cuts while their rent remained high.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This author wrote The Jungle, exposing dangerous conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This invention allowed messages to be sent over long distances using electrical signals before the telephone became widespread.
What is the telegraph?
Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth argued that wealthy people should do what with their money?
What is use their wealth to benefit society, such as through philanthropy?
This industrialist built a railroad empire and was known for expanding the New York Central Railroad.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This event in Chicago began as a peaceful labor rally but became associated with violence after a bomb was thrown.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot/ Affair?
Which muckraker's work helped Americans understand the terrible living conditions faced by many poor immigrants in cities?
Who is Jacob Riis?
Henry Ford used this production method to make automobiles faster and cheaper.
What is the assembly line?
This law was designed to limit monopolies and prevent businesses from using certain practices to eliminate competition.
What is the Sherman Anittrust Act?
This powerful financier helped organize and finance major corporations and played an important role in U.S. banking.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
What larger issue connected the major strikes of the Gilded Age, even though each strike had different causes?
What is the conflict between workers and employers over wages, working conditions, hours, and workers' rights?
Muckrakers used journalism and writing to expose problems. What larger goal did their work often serve?
What is bringing social problems to public attention and encouraging reform?
How did the Bessemer Process help change American industry?
It made steel cheaper and easier to produce, helping expand railroads, bridges, skyscrapers, and other industries.
Explain the connection between muckrakers and government reform.
Muckrakers exposed problems like poverty, unsafe working conditions, and unfair business practices, which encouraged the public to demand government reform and new laws.
Carnegie argued that wealthy people had a responsibility to use their money to improve society. What was this idea called?
What is the Gospel of Wealth?