Vocab
The people who build and manage businesses or enterprises in order to make a profit
Entrepreneur
Ohio oil tycoon who made agreements with railroads that made it difficult for his competitors to ship their products.
John D. Rockefeller
Immigration process location in New York Harbor
Ellis Island
Technique used by group of workers to negotiate higher wages and better working conditions.
Collective Bargaining
Term used by Mark Twain to refer to the last decades of the 19th cent.
Gilded Age
Government policies allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation.
Laissez-Faire
Steel tycoon who owned the coal mines and iron-ore fields that provided the raw material for his steel, as well as the ships and railroads that brought them to the steel mills.
Andrew Carnegie
Immigration process location in San Francisco Bay
Angel Island
An economic and political philosophy that favors the public, instead of private control of property and income.
Socialism
A Hungarian immigrant who fought in the Civil War then moved to NYC where he started the paper "The World" His name is synonymous with a journalism award.
Joseph Pulitzer
Process for purifying iron to make strong, but lightweight steel.
Bessemer Process
Wrote the book "The Jungle" which described the unhealthy processes used in the meat markets.
Upton Sinclair
Locations owned by a business and rented out to employees. Employers controlled the "company store."
Company Towns
Name one of the two major labor unions that were mentioned in your text.
Knights of Labor
or
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
An act passed by Congress to prohibit immigrants from this Asian nation from entering the country, limited the rights of those here, and forbade their naturalization.
Chinese Exclusion Act
A number of people share the ownership of a business.
Corporation
Term given to immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe in the 1870's
"New Immigrants"
Business where employees often worked long hours in a small, hot, dark, and dirty workhouse.
Sweatshop
This strike brought the railroad industry to a halt.
Pullman Strike
A term used to describe American society in which people of all nationalists blend together to create a single culture.
Melting Pot
Congress created this commission to monitor railroad shipping rates.
ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)
This group of people arrived at Angel Island and were often assumed that they would misrepresent themselves to gain entry.
Chinese Immigrants
Most urban workers lived in these low-cost multi-family housing areas designed to have as many families living together as possible.
Tenements
This event left and unfortunate legacy of the Knights of Labor after a protestor threw a bomb at a police officer.
Haymarket Riot
In the late 19th cent, America experienced a period of __________ in which the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically.
Urbanization