US History Milestone Review - The Gilded Age

A single company that controls virtually all of a particular industry is called a

This Processing Center in New York Harbor welcomed millions of immigrants to America

Discriminatory laws passed throughout the South that severely restricted African Americans

The railroads were the biggest customers for this industry due to thousands of miles of track 

Oil company headed by John D. Rockefeller gained control of most of America’s oil industry

The fed govt granted vast areas of western land to _____ in an effort to connect east and west

This magnificent achievement joined east and west with a golden spike through the last rail

During the age of Big Business this man came to control more than 90% of America’s oil industry

Labor unions banded together and formed this large union to give workers a voice 

Secret Society organized in the south that used terrorism tactics to restore white supremacy

The most famous settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago 

This institution of higher learning was started in Atlanta in 1867 w/ help of Freedmen’s Bureau

These journalists investigated and exposed corruption and other negative social issues

Sioux leader who fought U.S Army troops for years and led his people to a brief exile in Canada

His book, The Jungle, exposed unsanitary & unsafe conditions in Chicago’s meat packing industry

He invented: light bulb, phonograph, motion pictures, and a system for distributing electricity

In a series of magazine articles, she exposed political corruption big cities and Standard Oil

President who followed Lincoln, and was impeached by the US House of Representatives. 

These laborers from the west were instrumental in completing the Transcontinental Railroad

Jewish immigrant who led the American Federation of Labor. 

Corporations formed these companies to gain control of whole segments of an industry.  

Organization started by Congress aided African Americans & poor in South w/ clothes, food, jobs

1890 battle in South Dakota which resulted in over 300 Sioux deaths