Gilded Age/Progressives

Corporations/companies that looked to control an entire industry were called:

• Robber Barons

• Franchises

• Monopolies

• Captain of Industry

Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as

• muckrakers
• suffragists
• immigrants
• abolitionists

Why was the era in the late 19th century called the Gilded Age in America?

• Everyone wanted to travel or move to America due to entertainment and all the lights.

• America appeared attractive and ripe for opportunity but underneath, it had many problems like child labor, abuse of workers and poverty.

• Rich men like Carnegie and Vanderbilt had built America into a rich nation.

• The American dream was being developed and many had felt they had achieved it.

What do we call the crowded buildings that the poor (esp. immigrants) lived in?

• Tent cities

• Shanty towns

• Colonias

• Tenements

Which Constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. These organizations of workers were known as:

• Philanthropy

• Labor Unions

• Political Bosses

• Credit Unions

What was an American capitalist of the Gilded Age whose contributions benefited society?

• Captain of Industry

• Social Darwinist

• Socialist

• Fundamentalist

Immigration push factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place
• reasons people leave their homelands
• reasons people begin working
• reasons people stop working

 Immigration  pull factors are…

• reasons people are attracted to a new place

• reasons people leave their homelands
• reasons people begin working
• reasons people stop working

Whose book, The Jungle, caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?

• Upton Sinclair

• Lincoln Steffens

• Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis