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Industry
Famous People
Ages, Acts, and Laws
Big Ideas
Immigration
100
This process improved the steel industry.
What is the Bessemer process
100
This man earned his large amounts of money in the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
100
This law required truthful labels on food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
100
This big idea means the government should keep its "hands off" the economy.
What is Laissez-faire
100
Most ____ immigrants were Irish, German or British.
What are Old immigrants
200
Many big businesses didn't have to worry about this during the industrial revolution.
What are safety regulations.
200
This man thought Trusts were necessary evil and could not be eliminated or removed.
Who was Roosevelt
200
Farmers faced these during the Gilded Age which led to unpredictable harvests.
What are plagues and pests.
200
With this, the fittest and smartest people and businesses survive and become rich.
What is Social Darwinism
200
Most ____ immigrants were from Eastern and Southern Europe (Italy & Russia).
What are New Immigrants
300
When one business is so overwhelming that it controls the entire industry.
What is a monopoly
300
This man earned all his money in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
300
This bill originates from the people rather than legislators.
What is an Initiative
300
The Populists were a group/movement that got this Act passed.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
300
When a person moves into a country with the intent to stay permanently.
What is immigration
400
This event led to safety reforms being passed for factories.
What is the Triangle shirtwaist fire
400
This man was the leader of the New York Political Machine.
Who is Boss Tweed
400
Farmers faced more mechanization and more debt during this time.
What is the Gilded Age
400
This big idea decreased Japanese immigration.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement
400
When a person is moving out of a country
What is emigration
500
This industry started the big industrial boom and led to a big demand in steel and oil.
What is the Railroad industry
500
In his book The Jungle, this author exposed or showed everyone the unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
Who was Upton Sinclair
500
This Act outlawed trusts and monopolies that restrained free trade.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
500
This means the right to vote.
What is Suffrage
500
This group was the first to be restricted in their immigration to the U.S.
Who were Chinese immigrants