Gilded Age
To have a showy, attractive appearance that conceals a less valuable reality.
What is gilded?
The book written by Upton Sinclair, exposing the reality of Chicago's meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
The founder of the Tuskegee Institute
Who is Booker T Washington?
The founder of Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The period after the Civil War
What is the Reconstruction period?
To have less government intervention in the economy.
What is Laissez Faire economics?
The term for "survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
One of the key founders of the NAACP
Who is WEB DuBois?
The individual that built a massive monopoly on steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Reconstruction Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The completion of the transcontinental railroad.
What is the start of the Gilded Age?
The famous "political machine" that ran New York politics through the Progressive Era.
What is Tammany Hall?
The founder of the Knights of Labor.
Who is Terrance Powderly?
The wealthiest banker in the country throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Who is JP Morgan?
One method for limiting the number of black Americans that would vote.
What are Literacy Tests?
The author that coined the term "Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain?
The average hours per day working prior to the Progressive Era.
What is 10 hours per day?
The founder of the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Who is JP Morgan?
This Supreme Court case established the precedent of "Separate but Equal," the basis for the fight for integration over the next half century.
The specific region of the world of which most immigrants came from by the end of the Gilded Age.
What is Eastern Europe?
The federal agency formed after the publication of Upton Sinclair's novel.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
Who is Jacob Riis?
The historical landmark built by Cornelius Vanderbilt.
What is Grand Central Station?
The Talented Tenth
Who are the group of people that W.E.B. DuBois believed should lead black Americans?