Industry
Big Business
Labor Movement
Immigrants
City Life
100
Who developed plans for central power plants to light entire sections of cities.
Thomas Edison
100
What Ohio oil tycoon made it difficult for his competitors to ship their products?
John D. Rockefeller
100
This labor union only allowed skilled workers
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
100
What was the immigration station in New York Harbor?
Ellis Island
100
These people migrated to the cities due to isolation, weather conditions and economic struggles.
Farmers
200
What is a grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use and sell an invention?
A patent
200
What business leader used vertical integration by owning coal mines and iron ore fields, and ships and railroads?
Andrew Carnegie
200
What is negotiating as a group with employers for higher wages or better working conditions?
Collective Bargaining
200
What two regions were "new immigrants" from in Europe?
South and East
200
Who created the first safety elevator?
Elisha Otis
300
What man developed a process for purifying iron to make strong, but lightweight, steel?
Henry Bessemer
300
What Act outlawed any trust that operated "in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states?"
Sherman AntiTrust Act
300
Under this leader, the Knights of Labor grew to 700,000.
Terence V. Powderly
300
Where was the lower part of the ship where most immigrants traveled?
steerage
300
Low cost multifamily housing?
tenements
400
What cash crop continued to be important to the South after the Civil War?
Cotton
400
What social theory was based on On the Origin of Species?
Social Darwinism
400
Where did this image take place?
Haymarket Square
400
A tendency towards preferring "American" born whites over "new' immigrants
Nativism
400
Caused by drinking contaminated water,this illness reached epidemic proportions in the 1800s.
Cholera
500
What policies allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation?
laissez-faire
500
People that viewed business owners in a negative light, referred to them as what?
robber barons
500
Who was the private police force brought in to break up the Homestead Strike?
Pinkertons
500
What was the processing center for immigrants in San Francisco?
Angel Island
500
Who coined the term "Gilded Age"
Mark Twain