Innovation
This type of material helped create skyscrapers?
Steel
How did the U.S government encourage American Industry in the late 1800's
Laissez faire, protective tariffs
These types of communities were located on the perimeter of big cities and were sometimes accessed via electric street car?
Suburbs
This was the main processing station for immigrants entering from Europe
Ellis Island
How did Thomas Edison change American life?
Light bulb
What was the word for crowded apartment buildings?
Tenements
Define conspicuous consumerism:
people wanted and bought many new products on the market.
This was the main processing station for immigrants entering from Asia
Angel Island
Henry Heinz first started this type of process to quickly mass produce items?
Assembly line, mass production
What was the AFL?
The AFL was a union representing 100 unions of skilled workers
Describe two pull factors regarding immigration
economic opportunity, religious freedom, more employment, land
company town
How did John Rockefeller make his fortune?
Oil tycoon
Who was Samuel Gompers?
Gompers helped found the AFL
Describe two push factors regarding immigration
war, famine, religious persecution
This city was recognized as the steel capital of the United states due to its mass production of steel
Pittsburgh
Describe Vertical integration?
process of owning all aspects of an industry
How did the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882 affect Chinese immigrants.
restricted immigration, prevented them from visiting family in China, limited their civil rights
Define Americanization
programs designed to help immigrants assimilate in the United States
The "new immigrants" came from these areas of the world.
Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia
This insect destroyed cotton flowers in the late 1860's
Boll Weevil