His lightbulb had great impact because it enabled factory work to continue after sunset, increasing industrialization.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Located in New York, it served as a reception center for incoming immigrants to America.
What is Ellis Island?
100
the name reffering to immigrants before 1890
What are old Immigrants?
100
This was a list of workers who were believed to be union members. Employers would not hire them.
What are blacklists?
100
Leader of NY political Machine
Who is Boss Tweed?
200
This businessman benefitted from the "Bessemer Process", and made his fortune in the steel industry. He also believed in the "Gospel of Wealth", meaning that he wanted to use his money to help others in need.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
Many immigrants lived in these small, overcrowded, unsanitary apartments.
What are tenements?
200
Place stared by Jane Addams to help immigrants get an education and on their feet.
What aris HUll House?
200
This man was the first Million air and owned the Standard Oil company
Who is John D Rockefeller?
200
That's the idea that only the strong businesses will survive. It's basically a way to justify the wealth that big business owners had during the Gilded Age.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
He was sentenced to ten years in prison, as he was the leader of the American Railway Union and led the Pullman Strike of 1894.
Who is Eugene Debs?
300
West coast Verzion of Wllis Island. Used for registration of mostly Asain Immigrants
What is Angel Island?
300
This act banned over 85% of Asains from immigrating into the US in the late 1800s
What is the CHinese Exclusion act?
300
This 1890 law helped protect competition by making monopolies illegal. Unfortunately it was not really enforced until President Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
That's the french term meaning "leave alone". Business owners believed in this because they did not want the government to regulate business.
What is laissez-faire?
400
This man documented the poor living and working conditions of immigrants and poor workers in his book, "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
4 of these were deloped in the use thanks to the Rail road industry
What are Time zones?
400
This term refers to the blending of cultures
What is melting pot?
400
This labor union's influence ended with the tragedy at the Haymarket Square Riot.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
400
THis is the term used for a time in American History when sucess "covered" theCoruption of Big Business practices.
What is the Gilded Age?
500
She played an important role in opening and running Chicago's Hull House, which was a settlement house for poor and immigrants who needed help.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
On May 4, 1886, a riot ensued in this location after a bomb exploded during a demonstration for an 8 hour workday. As a result, the public perceived unions as violent.
What is Haymarket Square?
500
This christain based movement encouraged service to the poor?
What is the Social Gospel?
500
This act was created in 1887 to give the federal government the power to regulate any business that traveled from state to state.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
SPoils sytem or what is the name for giving postions to your friends if one takes political office