Gilded Age Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Encouraged western settlement.
   Homestead Act
2. Gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon territory.
   Klondike Gold Rush
3. A faster more efficient way to produce steel.
   Bessemer Process
4. Corrupt political groups that ran the cites in the late 1800s.
   Political Machine
5. Laws were passed to stop Chinese immigration for 10 years.
   Chinese Exclusion Act
6. Created to protect farmers from being over charged by the railroad companies.
   Interstate Commerce Act
7. A powerful business that does not allow competition.
   Monopoly
8. An attempt to a group's culture.
   Assimilation
9. Corrupt political leaders in the 1800s.
   Party Boss
10. Purpose was to break up monopolies.
    Sherman Anti-Trust Act
11. Practice of giving back.
    Philanthropy
12. example: new immigrants learning the culture such as speaking english.
    Americanization
13. Unfair treatment for children at work.
    Child Labor
14. When people leave one country to move to a new country.
    Immigration
15. Opposed new immigrants entering the country.
    Nativists
16. Area of the United States that was populated as a result of the homestead act.
    Great Plains
17. When business in America spread from east coast to west coast.
    National Market
18. Steel producer and philanthropist.
    Andrew Carnegie
19. The growth of cities.
    Urbanization
20. Keeping government out of business.
    Laissez- Faire
21. Connected east coast industry to western market.
    Transcontinental Railroad
22. Low rent overcrowded apartments in the 1800s.
    Tenement
23. Created by workers to demand better treatment.
    Labor Unions
24. An improved way to do something that can increase production.
    Efficiency