gilded age

Policies favoring the current citizens as opposed to immigrants.

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Laissez-Faire

• Nativism

Define Tenements

• Immigrants primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe: Italy, Asia, China, and Poland

• Single family dwellings divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate the new growth of population in the United States. They were often poorly lit, cramped, and lacked plumbing and good ventilation

• Federal law signed by President Chester Arthur in 1882 prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

• Immigrants primarily from Northern and Western Europe: England, Ireland, and Germany

• Population shift from rural areas to urban areas

Define Nativism

• An immigration station that opened in 1892, located at the mouth of the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. It closed in 1954.

• A place where different people, styles, theories are mixed together.

• Located in the San Francisco Bay, it was the primary immigration station for the West Coast from 1910-1940. It also served as a deportation station.

• The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

In 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act

• Mexican Reparition Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

The picture shows which negative effect of industrialization?

• High wages were earned
• Short working hours
• Safe working conditions
• Child labor was used

Who was best known for being in STEEL?

• J. P. Morgan

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Jefferon

Technological development most revolutionized US steel industry.

• Electrification
• Vulcanization
• Steam power
• Bessemer Process

Which of the following was NOT an important invention of the Gilded Age?

• telephone

• Internet

• electricity

• automobile

Which company was started by John D. Rockefeller?

• Standard Oil

• Kodak

• United States Steel

• Union Pacific