Big Business
This man built his enormous fortune in the American steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific joined their tracks at this Utah location in 1869.
What is Promontory Summit?
This immigration station in New York Harbor processed millions of immigrants entering the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
This famous American author helped popularize the name “Gilded Age.”
Who is Mark Twain?
Daily Double!!!
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
This economic policy argues that government should interfere as little as possible with businesses and the economy.
laissez-faire
The Central Pacific relied heavily on immigrants from this country to construct its portion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is China?
Poverty, religious persecution, and oppressive governments are examples of these reasons for leaving one's homeland.
What are push factors?
This artistic and literary movement attempted to portray ordinary life as it actually was rather than idealizing it.
What is Realism?
African Americans who left the South and migrated west, especially to Kansas, became known by this name.
Who were the Exodusters?
Unlike a sole proprietorship or partnership, this type of business sells shares of ownership called stock.
What is a corporation?
Daily Double!!!
Railroad companies helped create these because different local times made train schedules confusing.
This term describes hostility or distrust toward immigrants by native-born Americans.
What is nativism?
These organizations gained political power by helping people with jobs or assistance and expecting their votes in return.
What are political machines?
This man deliberately challenged Louisiana's segregation law by riding in a railroad car reserved for white passengers.
Who was Homer Plessy?
Rent is an example of this type of business expense because it must still be paid even if a factory temporarily stops producing goods.
What is a fixed cost?
Businesses sometimes hired these replacement workers to keep operating during a strike.
What are strikebreakers?
Immigrant children learned English, U.S. history, and American customs as part of this process.
What is Americanization?
This term describes giving government jobs to political supporters as a reward for their loyalty.
What is patronage?
This Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil became so powerful that it nearly controlled an entire industry. This type of market control is called this.
What is a monopoly?
During this 1886 Chicago labor demonstration, someone threw a bomb at police, resulting in violence and damaging the reputation of organized labor.
What is the Haymarket Riot/Affair?
While Ellis Island served the East Coast, this immigration station in San Francisco Bay processed many immigrants arriving from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
This president won the elections of both 1884 and 1892, making him the only president of the Gilded Age to win two nonconsecutive terms.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
One emphasized vocational education and economic advancement, while the other demanded more immediate civil and political rights. Name both men.
Who are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois?