Industrialz ation
The rapid growth of factories, businesses, and large scale production in the United States after the Civil War.
What is industrialization?
The belief that the United States was destined to expand its territory across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
When one company controls most or all of a particular market.
What is a monopoly?
This type of mining involved collecting gold from loose deposits in rivers and streams, often using pans
Placer Mining
The growth of cities as more people move into urban areas.
What is urbanization?
A wealthy industrialist who gained power and money through unfair or unethical business practices.
What is a robber baron?
Disease, injuries, lack of food and supplies, difficult weather, river crossings, and broken wagon equipment were some of the obstacles faced by pioneers traveling this trail.
What is the Oregon Trail?
John D. Rockefeller used this strategy to buy competing oil companies and gain control of much of the oil industry through Standard Oil.
What is horizontal integration?
The ___________ Railroad connected the eastern and western United States, making travel and transportation much faster and easier.
What is the Transcontinental ?
The belief that native born Americans should receive greater rights and opportunities than immigrants.
What is nativism?
The idea of “survival of the fittest” to society and business. Industrial leaders used it to argue that their wealth was a result of being more capable and that government should not interfere with their success.
What is Social Darwinism
This type of mining involved digging into solid rock to reach gold deposits.
What is quartz mining?
Carnegie argued that wealthy people had a responsibility to use their money to benefit society or know as
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
The process of adopting the culture and customs of another group. The U.S. government attempted this with Native Americans through boarding schools, land policies, and efforts to replace Native American languages and traditions with American ones.
What is assimilation?
A successful business leader who helped the economy by creating jobs, expanding industries, and improving technology.
Captain of industry
An organization of workers that joined together to negotiate for higher wages, shorter hours, safer workplaces, and better treatment.
What is a labor union?
This type of farming conserved moisture in the soil and was necessary on the Great Plains
What is dry farming?
This wealthy banker and financier used his money and financial influence to buy, combine, and reorganize companies.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
A federal law that banned most Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act
Crowded apartment buildings where many working class and immigrant families lived, often with poor ventilation, limited plumbing, and unsafe conditions.
What are tenements?
Henry Ford used the assembly line to revolutionize how this invention was produced, making it faster and more efficient to manufacture.
What is the automobile?
This 1862 law gave settlers up to 160 acres of public land if they lived on and improved it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This type of integration occurs when a company controls multiple stages of producing and selling a product, such as iron mines, railroads, and steel factories.
What is vertical integration?
A _______ was a large and highly profitable farming operation that produced crops on a massive scale.
What is Bonanza?
An organization that controlled a city government by providing services and jobs in exchange for political support.
What is a political machine?