Inventors
Reformers
Big Business
Gilded Age Concepts
Immigration
100
Wizard of Menlo Park, inventor of the lightbulb
Who was Thomas Edison?
100
Helped to establish "settlement houses" for the urban poor
Who was Jane Addams?
100
Created a successful steel company
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
100
The man who coined the phrase "The Gilded Age".
Who was Mark (Samuel Clemens) Twain?
100
Located in NYC, this was often the 1st step for many immigrants.
What was Ellis Island?
200
Creator of the assembly line method
Who was Henry Ford?
200
Created the American Federation of Labor
Who was Samuel Gompers?
200
Owner of several newspaper companies with a journalistic prize named after him today.
Who was Joseph Pulitzer?
200
When unions negotiate as a group
What is collective bargaining?
200
Who was Boss Tweed?
300
.
Who were the Wright brothers?
300
Wrote a book about the meat packing industry.
Upton Sinclair?
300
Businesses owned by multiple owners often sell public stock.
What is a corporation?
300
A document giving someone the sole right to make an sell a product or invention
What is a patent?
300
Buildings that often housed urban poor.
What are tenement houses?
400
Inventor of the telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
400
Published photos of the urban poor, opening the eyes for the American public.
Who was Jacob Riis?
400
Creater of a world-famous milk chocolate company.
Who was Milton Hershey?
400
Believed African Americans should demand equality.
Who was W.E.B Dubois?
400
The process of becoming part of another culture
What is assimilation?
500
His glass ketchup bottles revolutionized the food industry.
Who was Henry Heinz?
500
Wrote a book exposing the business practices of Standard Oil
Who was Ida Tarbell?
500
A company that controls most or all business in a particular industry.
What is a monopoly?
500
A nickname for Teddy Roosevelt who worked to break up companies that were working together.
What is a "trustbuster"?
500
Rapid growth of cities, immigrants hoped to often find new jobs.
What is Urbanization?