Westward Expansion
This Act gave settlers 160 acres of land if they cultivated that land for five years
What is The Homestead Act
These terms describes 19th-century business leaders who were praised for driving economic growth and innovation but criticized for exploiting workers and consolidating wealth at the expense of competition.
What are Captains of Industry and Robber Barons?
This term describes the anti-immigrant rhetoric and attitudes prevalent during the Gilded Age, which fueled policies like the Chinese Exclusion Act and promoted the idea that immigrants threatened American culture and jobs.
What is Nativism
Overcrowded cities, the growth of slums, the rise of political machines, the development of labor unions, and the spread of both social problems like poverty and crime, as well as new opportunities such as factory jobs, were all consequences of this process during the Gilded Age.
What is Urbanization
These journalists and writers, active during the Gilded Age and early 20th century, exposed corruption, social injustices, and unethical practices in business and government, sparking public demand for reform.
What were the Muckrakers
This act promoted the idea of "forced assimilation" by dividing the Native Americans' lands further
What is the Dawes Act
In response to poor working conditions, low wages, and long hours fostered by laissez-faire economics during the Gilded Age, workers united to form these organizations to advocate for their rights.
What is Labor Unions
One of the main pull factors that attracted new immigrants to the United States during the Gilded Age was the abundance of this type of employment, particularly in cities where industrialization was booming.
What was Unskilled Factory Jobs?
These overcrowded, poorly constructed apartment buildings were common in cities during the Gilded Age, where many poor immigrants and working-class families lived in unsanitary conditions, often with inadequate ventilation and plumbing.
What are tenement buildings?
This Act was largely a response to growing concerns about the safety and quality of food and medicines. Gaining popularity after the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, which exposed unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry, and widespread public outrage over patent medicines that often contained harmful ingredients.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act
What is Carlisle Indian Schools
This French term, meaning "let do" or "let it be," describes an economic policy of minimal government interference in business, widely embraced during the Gilded Age.
What is laissez-faire economics?
Founded by Jane Addams in 1889, this famous settlement house in Chicago provided social services, education, and support to immigrants during the Gilded Age.
What is Hull House
Factory work during the Industrial Revolution led to a shift from skilled labor, where workers had specialized skills, to this type of labor, where workers performed repetitive tasks in a highly mechanized environment.
What is Unskilled Labor
In 1911, this tragic fire at a New York City garment factory killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, due to unsafe working conditions and locked exit doors, leading to significant labor reforms and changes in workplace safety regulations.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This type of land, managed by a tribal government, was established by treaties, executive orders, and acts of Congress, providing a designated area for Native American tribes to live and govern themselves.
What is a reservation
This philosophy, popular during the Gilded Age, applied Charles Darwin's theories of evolution to human society, justifying economic inequality and the success of the wealthy as "survival of the fittest."
What is Social Darwinism
During the Gilded Age, this term referred to the wave of immigrants primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe, who faced challenges such as nativism and assimilation into American society.
What is New Immigrants
This 1890 book by Jacob Riis documented the harsh living conditions of the urban poor in New York City, using photographs to expose the struggles of immigrants and the working class.
What is How the Other Half Lived?
This 1890 federal law aimed to prevent monopolies and promote competition by making it illegal for companies to engage in anti-competitive practices, though its effectiveness was initially limited.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
This event is commonly known as the end of the Indian Wars.
This concept, articulated by Andrew Carnegie, argued that the wealthy had a moral obligation to use their fortunes to advance social progress through philanthropy.
What is Gospel of Wealth
This 1882 federal law prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States, marking the first significant law to restrict immigration based on nationality or race.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
During the Gilded Age, this city saw the greatest growth in the United States, becoming a major industrial, financial, and cultural hub, driven by immigration, factory jobs, and rapid urbanization.
What is New York City
This US president, earned the nickname "Trust Buster" for his efforts to break up monopolies and regulate big businesses, using the Sherman Antitrust Act to challenge companies that he believed harmed competition and consumers.