Railroad &Industry
The process in which a society shifts from farming and handmade goods toward machine-powered factory production
What is industrialization?
A company that controls nearly all of a product or service's market, limiting competiton
What is a monopoly?
This 1886 labor protest in Chicago became associated with a bomb explosion, violence, and backlash against organized labor
What was the Haymarket Square affair?
The growth of cities as people moved from rural areas and other places to urban city centers
What is urbanization?
Charles Darwin's book presenting his theory of evolution and natural selection
What is On the Origin of Species?
This coast-to-coast rail line connected the eastern and western United States in 1869.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Andrew Carnegie used this strategy by controlling multiple stages of steel production (from raw materials to distribution)
What is vertical integration?
This labor organization, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers, better wages, and improved working conditons.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Crowded, often poorly maintained apartment buildings where many working-class and immigrant families lived
What are tenements?
What is Social Darwinism?
This railroad company built westward from Omaha, Nebraska, while the Central Pacific built eastward.
What was the Union Pacific Railroad Company?
John D. Rockefeller expanded Standard Oil by buying or controlling competing oil refineries by using what economic strategy?
What is horizontal integration?
This labor union welcomed workers across skill levels and sought broad social and economic reforms
What were the Knights of Labor?
A community organization that provided services such as classes, childcare, and support to immigrant and low-income families
What is a Settlement House?
A literary movement that tried to portray everyday life and society in a believable, ordinary way
What is Realism?
This company built eastward from California to help complete the transcontinental railroad
What is the Central Pacific Railroad Company?
This 1890 law was intended to limit trusts and business practices that restricted trade, though it was initially difficult to enforce.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1887 federal law attempted to regulate unfair railroad practices and created a federal commission.
Jane Addams co-founded this famous settlement house in 1889
What is Hull House?
A device that recorded and played back sound, invented by Thomas Edison
What is a phonograph?
Steel rails, bridges, standardized time helped this industry expand across the country.
What is the railroad industry?
This industrialist built a steel empire and later became known for his large scale philanthropy.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This group of workers organized to advocate for Black workers' rights, in part because many unions excluded them
What was the Colored National Labor Union?
This phrase describes the belief that immigrants could blend into a shared American culture (critics of this phrase called it "a dumping ground")
Sensationalized news reporting designed to attact readers, often associated with Joseph Pulitzer
What is Yellow Journalism?