Big Business & Industrial Titans
This wealthy industrialist built US Steel using vertical integration
Who is Andrew Carnegie
This was the main purpose of labor unions during the Gilded Age
What is to improve wages, hours, and working conditions
This location in New York Harbor processed millions of immigrants.
What is Ellis Island
He invented the telephone in 1876
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
This term describes journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.
What are muckrakers
This businessman created Standard Oil and was accused of forming a monopoly.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
This riot in Chicago (1886) turned public opinion against unions after a bomb exploded.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot
This term best describes the overcrowded and unsafe apartment buildings many immigrants lived in
What are tenements
He created the phonograph and improved upon the electric light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison
This writer exposed the unfair business practices of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell
What term describes business leaders accused of using ruthless tactics for profit?
What are robber-barons
Which union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers and collective bargaining?
what is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
This political boss controlled Tammany Hall and was targeted by cartoonist Thomas Nast
Who is Boss Tweed
This method of transport helped unify national markets and expanded trade. BE SPECIFIC
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
His political cartoons helped expose corruption by Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall.
Who is Thomas Nast
This economic philosophy argued that government should not interfere with business
what is lassiez-faire
This strike at Carnegie Steel led to violent clashes between workers and Pinkerton agents.
What is the Homestead Strike
This political boss controlled Tammany Hall and was targeted by cartoonist Thomas Nast.
Who is Jacob Riis
This manufacturing technique used identical parts and sped up mass production.
Public outrage from this muckraker’s work led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
who is Upton Sinclair
This process revolutionized steel production and fueled rapid industrial growth.
What is the Bessemer Process
In the Pullman Strike, the U.S. government justified intervention by claiming workers interfered with this.
What is interstate commerce/the mail system
This term describes favoring native-born Americans over immigrants?
what is nativism
This innovation, used heavily in later industries, originated in the Gilded Age and allowed goods to be produced faster and cheaper using a system of specialized tasks.
What is the assembly line
This term, coined by Mark Twain, described the era’s surface prosperity covering deep social problems.
what is the Gilded Age