the Gilded Age

1. the Gilded Age

2. FINAL JEOPARDY!

3. Topic 1: 1 Point Despite lower fertility rates, higher infant morality rates, and the ravages of diseases, such as tuberculosis, cities experienced tremendous growth post-Civil War primarily due to this. What is immigration?

4. Topic 1: 2 Points Seen here, the cheaper production costs, resulting in lower prices, of this material allowed for the skyscraper boom in urban centers, such as New York and Chicago. What is steel?

5. Topic 1: 3 Points The New York Times described this event on October 27, 1904 in the following manner, “For the first time in his life Father Knickerbocker went underground yesterday; went underground, he and his children, to the number of 150,000, amid the tooting of whistles and the firing of salutes…” What is the first subway train ride?

6. Topic 1: 4 Points Public health regulations helped to control dreadful diseases like typhoid and cholera by advocating for this. What water purification, proper sewage disposal or handwashing?

7. Topic 1: 5 Points This term was used by reformers to describe the condition of prostitutes despite the ethnic and racial diversity of prostitutes. What is “White Slavery?”

8. Topic 2: 1 Point In 1882, skilled and unskilled laborers from this country were banned from immigrating to the United States. What is China?

9. Topic 2: 2 Points Prior to 1890, most immigrants hailed from Western Europe, but through the 1910s, most immigrants came from these two regions of Europe? Who is Southern and Eastern Europe?

10. Topic 2: 3 Points Despite being an immigrant from England, Samuel Gompers, the leader of this labor union promoted an anti-immigrant policy. What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

11. Topic 2: 4 Points Jane Addams described these institutions, such as Hull house as, “An experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems which are engendered by the modern condition of life in a great city.” What are social settlements?

12. Topic 2: 5 Points These societies composed of people from a particular town or province, collected dues from members and paid support in case of death or disability from a workplace injury. They also acted as fraternal organizations. What are mutual aid societies?

13. Topic 3: 1 Point In his article, “Wealth,” he argued that philanthropy was the duty of upper class citizens to help combat socio-economic inequality. Who is Andrew Carnegie?

14. Topic 3: 2 Points This theory supported by William Graham Sumner believed that the impoverished should not be aided as society was similar to the wild ; it was survival of the fittest. What is Social Darwinism?

15. Topic 3: 3 Points A major goal of this movement was to draw the attention of Protestant churches to the plight of the urban poor. What is the Social Gospel?

16. Topic 3: 4 Points This book by Edward Bellamy described a social utopia that captured the public’s attention and stirred reform. What is Looking Backward, 2000-1887?

17. Topic 3: 5 Points The protagonists in his books were primarily successful due to their hard work and Protestant values. Who is Horatio Alger?

18. Topic 4: 1 Point This term was attributed to a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country. This may have been through increased productivity, expansion of markets, providing more jobs, or acts of philanthropy. What is a Captain of Industry?

19. Topic 4: 2 Points Seen here, he was dubbed “The Commodore.” he made his fortune in steam boat and railroad transportation and has an avenue in midtown Manhattan named in his honor. Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?

20. Topic 4: 3 Points Seen here, he twice aided the United States economy. In 1895, he helped replenish the nation’s gold reserves and in 1907, he purchased stocks and invested in banks to ward off the panic. Monopoly’s Rich Uncle Pennybags is based on him. Who is John Pierpont Morgan?

21. Topic 4: 4 Points This Supreme Court decision, which was later reversed in Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Union Railroad v. Illinois (1886), declared state governments can regulate businesses clothed in the public interest. What is Munn v. Illinois (1877)?

22. Topic 4: 5 Points The economic practice employed by John D. Rockefeller in which he controlled all aspects of oil production, from refining to shipping. What is vertical integration?

23. Topic 5: 1 Point Seen here, this journalist and activist led an anti-lynching crusade in the 1890s. Who is Ida B. Wells?

24. Topic 5: 2 Points Under the declaration of “separate but equal,” this Supreme Court ruling legalized segregation and Jim Crow laws. What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

25. Topic 5: 3 Points This coalition of U.S. farmers began as a fraternal organization, but became political and advocated that the federal government subsidize farmers, regulate railroads, especially their shipping and storage rates. What is the Grange Movement?

26. Topic 5: 4 Point Due to the low-wage industrial sector emerging in the South after Reconstruction and attempts to limit the economic growth of blacks, southern textile mills often used them as laborers. Who are children?

27. Topic 5: 5 Points This strike in Chicago effectively weakened the Knights of Labor and created an anti-union environment in America when a bomb thrown at police was attributed to eight anarchists. What is the Haymarket Square Riot?

30. Category: Urban Reform Operated similarly to an army by its founder, this branch of the New York City Sanitation Department was heralded by a New York newspaper reporter as the “apostle of Cleanliness.” Who are the White Wings?