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This 1869 project connected the East and West coasts, revolutionizing transportation and commerce."
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This violent 1892 strike at a Carnegie steel plant highlighted labor struggles, influencing modern labor rights movements.
What is Homestead?
This 1882 law banned Chinese laborers, reflecting nativist and xenophobic attitudes that still influence immigration debates.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This 1876 battle marked a major victory for Native Americans, but their resistance was ultimately crushed.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This was how political parties gave out jobs to their supporters after winning power.
This term refers to monopolies and they later had make laws to break them up.
What are trusts?
This labor union, founded in 1869, paved the way for modern workers’ rights organizations.
What were the Knights of Labor?
This term describes overcrowded, poorly maintained apartment buildings, a problem still seen in modern cities.
What are tenements?
This animal's near-extinction undermined Native American subsistence, symbolizing environmental destruction.
What is the buffalo?
This political party’s 1892 platform called for government control of railroads, foreshadowing modern public utilities.
Who were the Populists?
This industrialist’s philanthropic foundations focused on libraries and universities.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
He came up with the term that describes the era’s superficial glitter masking deep social problems.
Who was Mark Twain?
This New York City neighborhood’s overcrowded tenements inspired modern housing reforms.
What is the Lower East Side?
This 1890 massacre marked the end of armed Native American resistance, leaving a legacy of trauma.
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld "separate but equal" racial segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The term used to criticize the wealthy elites during the Gilded Age.
What is "robber baron"?
This 1886 event in Chicago turned violent, shaping public perception of labor movements for decades and making May 1 a global workers' holiday.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
These are the two parts of Europe that the new Gilded Age era immigrants were coming from.
what are Eastern and Southern Europe?
This 1887 law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots for Native American families.
What is the Dawes Act?
The corrupt leader of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City.
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
This 1890 law aimed to prevent monopolies laying the groundwork for modern legislation.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This journalist’s work and photography exposing urban poverty inspired modern investigative journalism and social reform.
This 1890 book by Jacob Riis documented life in New York’s slums, inspiring future urban reform efforts.
What is "How the Other Half Lives"?
Prominent leader of the Lakota Sioux known for resisting U.S. government policies and leading his people during the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who was Sitting Bull?
This 1896 presidential candidate’s 'free silver' campaign influenced modern debates over monetary policy.