Industrial Technologies
What remained the dominant mode of transportation and industrial progress in the 19th century?
what is the railroad?
Who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and what type of workers did it focus on?
Who is Samuel Gompers
What ideology justified the success of industrialists by claiming that only the strongest survive in society?
What is Social Darwinism?
Which union only represented skilled workers?
AFL
This term refers to the rapid growth of cities due to industrial jobs attracting workers from rural areas and overseas.
What is urbanization?
Who created the process to convert iron to steel?
Who is Henry Bessemer?
Why did Mark Twain call the late 19th century the "Gilded Age"?
What is two faced
What term describes the complete control over a commodity or service in a market?
What is monopoly?
What became associated with terrorism and violence after Haymarket Square?
Anarchism
In the late 19th century, these labor organizations emerged to advocate for better wages, hours, and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
By 1917, how many automobiles were in America?
what is 5 million?
What was Andrew Carnegie’s main argument in the Gospel of Wealth about how the wealthy should use their money?
What is greater good.
What was the term used for industrialist that used unethical practices?
What is robber baron?
What was the system the Knights of Labor wanted to implement in the economy?
Cooperative System
Immigrants from this Asian country were excluded by a U.S. law passed in 1882, marking one of the first major restrictions on immigration.
What is China?
Did John Rockefeller use vertical or horizontal integration?
what is both?
What is the main purpose of horizontal integration in business?
What is to gain market share
Who founded the knights of labor
Who is Uriah Stephens?
In what way did the AFL attempt to make women unattractive to employers and drive them out of the workforce?
Giving them equal pay
Immigrants arriving between 1880 and 1920 primarily came from these regions of Europe, contrasting earlier immigration trends.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
What were factors of industrial growth in America?
What is abundance of raw materials, large labor pool, technological innovation, talented entrepreneurs, federal government eager to assist growth, expanding domestic market?
What is the difference between a robber baron and a captain of industry?
Robert baron exploited people and a captain of industry helped people.
Which industrialist is known for creating the Standard Oil Company?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Why was the AFL hostile of the government trying to protect labor or improve working conditions?
Because it is always possible for the government to take away what it has given
This 1917 legislation introduced literacy tests as a requirement for immigrants entering the United States.
What is the Immigration Act of 1917?