Transcontinental Railroad
These two crops grew in large quantities because of the TCR.
What are corn and wheat?
This tycoon was involved in railroads and was important in reducing transportation costs.
Who is Vanderbilt?
These kinds of people were often hired because they could fit between machines and could be paid less.
Who were children?
What is New York?
A railroad that crosses a continent, connecting the east and west coasts of the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What are buffaloes?
This tycoon worked in finance and bailed the government out with a large loan.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
What is 1882?
The process of developing industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
What is indsutrialization?
This is the state that the two ends of the TCR met in.
What is Utah?
This tycoon helped build the first transcontinental railroad and opened a famous university in California.
Who is Stanford?
If people didn't like what was happening at their job they would often do this.
What is go on strike?
This is how many immigrants (roughly) were processed at Ellis Island during the time it was open.
What is 12 million?
When one company controls an entire industry, eliminating competition.
What is a monopoly?
What are California and Nebraska?
These two tycoons were involved with the Homestead Strike.
Who are Carnegie and Frick?
This is a famous and violent strike that happened at Carnegie's Steel Mill.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This was a contagious eye infection that was often checked for during medical evaluation at Ellis Island.
What is tracoma?
The action of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another.
What is emigration?
What are the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad?
This tycoon had a town named after him and at one point raised the rent and cut his workers wages, starting a famous strike.
Who is Pullman?
The citizens of this town wrote a letter to the Governor of Illinois begging for help.
What is Pullman, Illinois?
This is the percent of immigrants rejected and sent back at Ellis Island.
Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
What is persecution?