Inventions & Industry
The incandescent light bulb was perfected at a research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey by this person
Who is Thomas Edison?
This critical term for the late 19th century era coined by Mark Twain meant to suggest that while all appeared glittering on the outside, what was underneath was corrupt.
What is the Gilded Age?
This founder of the American Railway Union (ARU) became a socialist and ran for president several times
Who is Eugene Debbs?
This 1893 law in Illinois banned child labor and limited women's working hours while becoming a model for other states.
What is the Illinois Factory Act?
This response to immigration consisted of overt favoritism toward native-born Americans.
What is nativism?
This Scottish immigrant made a huge fortune in steel and donated most of his profits
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Business advocates in the late 19th and early 20th century believed in this form of capitalism, which asserted that there should be no government interference in economic life
What is laissez-faire?
The National Labor Union (NLU), the first large-scale national organization of laborers, had some chapters that refused to admit African Americans, leading to the creation of this union
What is the Colored National Labor Union (CNLU)?
This event in New York City killed 146 people and led to significant workplace safety legislation in response
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Jane Addams was a leader in the Social Gospel movement that, among other things, established __________, community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area, especially immigrants.
What are settlement houses?
This individual, who may have been the richest person in the history of the United States, created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
A major concern of this early 20th century novel is the social and economic desperation that entrapped children in horrific working conditions.
What is The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair?
This showdown between Andrew Carnegie and his workers in 1892 led to the calling in of the Pennsylvania National Guard and effectively ended the unionization of steelworkers for 44 years
What is the Homestead Strike of 1892?
The reaction to the outcome of the Pullman Strike of 1894 led to this national holiday?
What is Labor Day?
This movement was designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture.
What is the Americanization movement?
This philosophy of the era believed that evolutionary theories applied to political, economic, or social life
What is Social Darwinism?
The business strategy used by Andrew Carnegie of buying out raw materials producers or distributors so that he owned all aspects of the industry was known as this
What is vertical integration?
This Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) anthem that later was adopted by the AFL-CIO is a famous call for workers to unite and stand together.
What is Solidarity Forever?
This 1916 law prohibited the transportation across state lines of goods produced with child labor
What is the Keating-Owen Act?
When Japanese children were segregated and put into separate schools in San Francisco in 1906, the U.S. and Japanese governments reached this deal in which ended the segregation in exchange for reducing the emigration of unskilled labor from Japan.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
This cheap and efficient process for transforming iron into steel dramatically influenced Industrialization in the 19th century.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This crime-photographer exposed the "hell" of the tenements in his book How the Other Half Lives which inspired a period of change and progress
Who is Jacob Riis?
This working town, later the scene of an infamous strike, was unusual in that it was built by a company to house its workers.
Where is Pullman, Illinois?
The Supreme Court cases of Muller v. Oregon and Bunting v. Oregon upheld (agreed that it was legal to have) state laws that did this for female and male workers
What is limit workdays to ten hours?
This person wrote these words that are written on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..."
Who is Emma Lazarus?