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Industrialization &
Urbanization
Immigration & Indians
Women & Workers
Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Miscellaneous
100
John D. Rockefeller controlled this company, in effect 90% of the Market
What is the Standard Oil Company?
100
This was the main center of immigration (NY) from 1890s-mid 1900s
What is Ellis Island?
100

Suffragists (like Carrie Chapman Catt) fought for this right, which they earned in 1920

What is the right to vote?
100

Major American cities lacked this during the Gilded Age, even though it was important for public health & hygiene.

What is sanitation?

100

Reporting meant to expose corruption in government and the business world

What is muckraking?

100
These were built to make cities go vertical to save space. Made possible by the invention of the elevator.
What are skyscrapers?
200
Control of an industry by one person, group, company, etc. Bad for competition and fair prices/quality
What is a monopoly?
200
What jobs did Irish & Chinese Immigrants often work out West?
What are Railroads?
200

an activist who founded Hull House in Chicago, America’s most famous settlement home

Who is Jane Addams?

200
Who coined the Term "Gilded Age"?
Who is Mark Twain?
200
These kinds of conditions were commonplace in city jobs, especially those occupied by immigrants.
What is a "sweatshop"?
200
Stated that the rich had an obligation to give back to just causes and they less fortunate through philanthropy
What is the "Gospel of Wealth"?
300
Crowded buildings where poor immigrants often lived. Sometimes had 10X more people than intended.
What are tenements?
300
The most notorious examples of conflict where outnumbered and outgunned Native Americans were killed in large numbers by US forces
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
300

(2 Parts) This type of production broke tasks up into smaller tasks that workers would perform over and over, as well as an industry women often worked in using it during the Gilded Age/Progressive Era

What is the assembly line & clothing/textiles? 

300
Besides John Rockefeller, these 3 were famous examples of "captains of industry" or "robber barrons"?
Who are J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt?
300

(2 Parts) The publication of this book/exhibit led to the destruction of crowded & dangerous houses, as well as its photographer/presenter

What is How the Other Half Lives & who is Jacob Riis?

300
Fighting against the Spoils System/Patronage, this required qualified applicants to pass exams for government appointments/jobs
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
400

(2 Parts) This political machine leader ran Tammany Hall/NYC, and the name of the cartoonist who eventually brought him down. 

Who are William "Boss" Tweed & Thomas Nast?

400
2 Different Terms: The belief in protecting interests & superiority of those born in US. The act of being absorbed into the prevailing culture, such as language, customs, religion.
What are nativism & assimilation?
400
Union strikes were usually over these three causes in the Gilded Age (and today).
What are better pay, better conditions and better hours?
400
When Stockholders transfer their shares to one person or trustees who then control the company and eliminate competition. This famous act fought against this practice.
What is a trust?
400

(2 Parts) The publication of this book led to more sanitary work conditions in meat factories & the author

What is the Jungle & Upton Sinclair?

400
This technique allowed for the mass-production of steel, making the industry very profitable.
What is the Bessemer Process?
500

The difference between Vertical and Horizontal Integration - give examples explaining each one

Horizontal integration is when you control all of the same product (if you controlled Coca Cola, Pepsi, and RC Cola, you would have a monopoly over the soda industry) Vertical Integration is where you control all of the means of Production of your product (GM owns a rubber factory, steel mill, an iron mill, an iron mine, a shipping company, and an oil company. You own something in every stage of production from the bottom-up.

500
4 examples of the difficulties faced by students at Indian Boarding Schools
Answers vary - physical abuse, malnourished children, forced labor, haircuts, kerosene baths, being forced to change names/languages/appearances, watching "Cowboys & Indians" movies
500

(2 Parts) The name given to the American economy decline, which resulted in massive debate on what should count as currency, as well as what ideology it led a record number of Americans to turn to?

What is the Panic of 1893 & Socialism?

500

Name 3 Gilded Age Presidents and what they were most-known for

Grant - Civil War General who had a presidency filled with scandal, like the Whiskey Ring & Credit Mobilier Garfield - desired civil service reform, but was assassinated by a disgruntled job-seeker/insane person Arthur - Following his Garfield's assassination, he focused on Civil Service Reform and expanding the Navy Cleveland - the only US President to serve two, non-consecutive terms Harrison - this ineffective President struggled to govern and lost his re-election big in 1892 to the man he had defeated four years earlier McKinley - gold-backing President who was assassinated by an anarchist, defeated William Jennings Bryan in 1896

500

(3 Parts) These changes during the Progressive Era improved elections in the United States and made them more fair.

What are _______, ________, & ___________? 

  1. recall

  2. referendum

  3. Initiative

  4. Secret Ballot
  5. Women's Suffrage
500
2 Answers: In 1862, this promised ownership of public land to 5-Year Residents/"Homesteaders" in West. This act removed Indians from reservations and sent them to live on individual family land, which they usually lost because they couldn't take care of it.
What are the Homestead Act & The Dawes Act?