terms (Gilded Age)

Question 1

mark twain

Answer 1

coined by “golden in the outside but corrupt underneath”

Question 2

jane addams

Answer 2

founder of the hull house for women/children

Question 3

william booth

Answer 3

founder of the salvation army

Question 4

george williams

Answer 4

founder of YMCA (young men’s Christian association)

Question 5

jacob riis

Answer 5

social reformer journalist/photographer showed “how the other half lived”

Question 6

henry ford

Answer 6

automobile- worth $200 B (Model T)

Question 7

populist party

Answer 7

party of the working class

Question 8

horace mann

Answer 8

started public school education

Question 9

thomas nast

Answer 9

journalist- drew political cartoons to expose corruption of the bosses and robber barons

Question 10

ulysses s. grant

Answer 10

least corrupt president during this period

Question 11

andrew carneige

Answer 11

steel- worth $350 B

Question 12

cornerlius vanderbilt

Answer 12

railroads- worth $765 today

Question 13

john d. rockerfeller

Answer 13

kerosine/oil- worth $400 B

Question 14

william tweed

Answer 14

made millions of $ illegal, eventually went to jail for it

Question 15

monopoly

Answer 15

single sellers/ controls all

Question 16

“working class”

Answer 16

“have-nots” industrial workers

Question 17

unions

Answer 17

protected workers

Question 18

strikes

Answer 18

stoppage of work to combat robber barons

Question 19

jp morgan

Answer 19

banking/finance- wort $100 B

Question 20

muckrakers

Answer 20

exposed the “evils” of society

Question 21

robber barons

Answer 21

a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices

Question 22

dumbbell tenements

Answer 22

multifamily dwellings

Question 23

gentlemen’s agreement

Answer 23

limited the # of Japanese immigrants to America

Question 24

assimilate

Answer 24

become like

Question 25

ethnic islands

Answer 25

community w/ some ethnic groups

Question 26

chinese exclusion act of 1882

Answer 26

stopped chinese immigration for 30 years

Question 27

immigration act of 1917

Answer 27

required immigrants to be able to read and write before coming to America

Question 28

ellis island

Answer 28

NYC

Question 29

golden door

Answer 29

statue of liberty

Question 30

railroads

Answer 30

where the “linchpin” connected America

Question 31

proletariat

Answer 31

working class

Question 32

emma lazarus

Answer 32

american poet

Question 33

capitalism

Answer 33

industry controlled by private owners

Question 34

graft

Answer 34

illegal use of politcal influence for personal gain

Question 35

row houses

Answer 35

very small house for the middle class

Question 36

nativism

Answer 36

anti-immigration sentiment

Question 37

urbanization

Answer 37

movement of people from the country to the cities

Question 38

sweatshops

Answer 38

factories in the clothing industries (dark, crowded, unsafe)

Question 39

american party

Answer 39

(know-nothings) political party designed to restrict and stop immigration

Question 40

angel island

Answer 40

san francisco

Question 41

statue of liberty

Answer 41

opportunity and freedom

Question 42

mass transit

Answer 42

designed to move large group of people

Question 43

thomas edison

Answer 43

creates the the first incandescent light bulb

Question 44

bourgeoisie

Answer 44

private business owners