Immigration
Southern & Eastern European immigrants came to this immigrant station in New York.
What is Ellis Island.
This is the period of time after the Civil War. The last unit in 7th grade.
What is Reconstruction.
What do historians call this time period that we are currently studying???
What is the Gilded Age
This vocab word is when a company buys out or eliminates competitors making it the only provider of that good or service.
What is a monopoly.
What is factories?
This mythical individual was the host of CNN10 before Coy..
Who is Carl Azuz
Immigrants of this background were famous for building railroads, groceries, and laundromats in the West during the 1800s.
What is Chinese immigrants.
These buildings were known to have no running electricity, ventilation, or water. They were very cramped and lived in mostly by the poor and immigrants.
What is tenements?
This is an economic system where private individuals use their capital to make money & profits
What is Capitalism?
This Scottish immigrants will become a steel robber baron. He will give away 90% of his wealth in old age.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This invention enabled workers and factories to produce around the clock and more efficiently
What is electricity, the light bulb?
Taylor Swift fans are often referred to as these
What are Swifties?
Many 'new' immigrants to the US came from places like Italy, Russia, etc. Where were 'OLD' immigrants from?
What is North and West Europe?
Name one POSITIVE effect of urbanization
What is job creation, access to parks, libraries, and services, access to education, improved transportation.
This is when a country or city begins to change from a farming based economy to a manufacturing economy?
What is industrialization?
This robber baron controlled all or most of the oil in the US.
Who is JD Rockefeller?
Who invented the telephone??
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
An organization that fights for better wages, hours, and conditions in a work place.
What are labor unions?
This immigrant station is where 97% of immigrants that came through were Chinese. Many were interrogated!
What is Angel Island
Why was alcoholism so common during the Gilded Age?
What is lack of work, low pay, high stress
These are people who exposed corruption and society's problems throughout the Gilded Age. Typically through journalism & photography.
What is 'muckrakers'?
Name ONE way employers in the Gilded Age responded to workers and unions striking?
What is violence, hiring scabs, lockouts, blacklisting, etc.
This invention allowed for the transportation of goods around the United States. This invention will also help kick off industrialization.
What is the railroad?
Who starred in the film "Home Alone"?
Who is Macaulay Culkin
What were different reasons why immigrants were migrating to the United States during the time period of Industrialization? Name TWO.
What is better jobs, better pay, more opportunities, religious freedom, freedom from military drafts etc?
What types of issues did most urban areas face in this time period?
Name two
What is crime, pollution, overcrowding, sanitation, fire, violence and protection?
This author first used the term 'The Gilded Age' to describe the time period we are studying
What is Mark Twain
This robbber baron would come to dominate banking and finance.
Who is JP Morgan?
This idea was pioneered by Henry Ford in his car factories. It made production very efficient but very boring.
What is the assembly line?
This is the month that Mr. Martinez was born in
What is April?