Vocabulary 1
What are Stock Certificates
Started this oil company
What is Standard Oil Company?
Nativist Americans felt this way towards the New Immigration
What is hard to "Americanize"
A protest in Chicago that the Knights of Labor were unfairly blamed for
What is the Haymarket Bombing?
Area in Minnesota where much iron ore was found
What is the Mesabi Range?
The first venture into drilling oil was called this
He was the first businessman to start this legal agreement term for businesses working together to reduce competition
What is a trust?
Settlement houses were designed to solve...
What is the problems related to Industrialization and urbanization?
The Knights of Labor allowed these people to join their union (list at least 3/4)
Who are women, African Americans, immigrants and unskilled workers.
An invention that allowed iron to be changed into steel and allowed for mass production
Bessemer Converter
This law prohibited Chinese workers from entering the US
Rockefeller was in the "business of making ____"
What is money?
This time period is referred to as this because although lots of growth was going on, there was much poverty and problems underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
This man started the knights of labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
A business owned by stockholders and run by a board of directors
Corporation
The total control of a product, service, or trade in a region
What is a monopoly?
This Act tried to prevent businesses like Rockefeller's from becoming monopolies
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
(Will accept the Interstate Commerce Act for $200)
An area where immigrants would settle together was called this
What is an ethnic neighborhood?
To prevent workers from joining unions, employers had their workers sign this written agreement to not join
What are yellow-dog contracts?
A group of corporations formed by a legal agreement and organized especially for the purpose of reducing competition
What is a Trust?
The group of people who run the corporation
By late 1870s, Rockefeller controlled this % of the oil business
What is 90%?
Transportation issues led to the development of these for improvement
What are cable cars and electric trolleys?
What is blacklists?
She started the Hull House in Chicago in 1889
Who is Jane Addams?