Urbanization
Immigration
Industrialization
People
Monopolies
100
Buildings poor immigrants lived in
What are tenements
100
Protected Americans from immigrants' possible diseases
What is Ellis Island
100
Connects New York and Chicago
What is the New York Central Railroad
100
Owned the first steel company
Who is Carnegie
100
Took over 90% of the oil industry
What is Standard Oil
200
3/4 of this region/city was immigrants due to the influx of immigration
What is New York City
200
Predominant religion of "old" immigrants
What is Catholicism
200
Bill that first restricted child labor
What is the Keating Owen Child Labor Act
200
Created the New York Central Railroad
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
200
Outlawed railroad rebates and established interstate commerce commission
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
300
Steel company that supported the building of skyscrapers
What is the Otis Company
300
Settlement house that accepted newly arrived European immigrants
What is the Hull House
300
Branch lines connected to smaller towns
What are Integrated Trunk Lines
300
Ran corrupt political machine in New York City and bribed officials for positions in office
Who is Boss Tweed
300
"Shattered big companies into smaller pieces"
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
400
Created due to the rich not wanting to live around poor areas
What are suburbs
400
Immigrants benefitted from this political machine
What is Tammany Hall
400
High quality steel from molten iron
What is the Bessemer Process
400
Introduced the concept of Social Darwinism
Who is Herbert Spencer
400
Rags to riches (or in this case, monopoly)
Who is Carnegie
500
Jacob Riis depicted this in his influential photos
What are poor living conditions in tenements
500
Predominant religion of the "new" immigrants
What is Judaism
500
Made up 1/5 of the American work force
Who are women
500
Took a large monthly payment from Pacific Mail Steamship Company for is competition on the sea lanes to California
Who is Vanderbuilt
500
Disagreed with the regulations set in the Sherman Antitrust Act
What is the US v E.C. Knight Co.
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