Vocab I
Business Stuff
Industrial Workers
Important People
Immigrants & City Life
100
This was a period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800s.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
100
This term refers to owning all businesses in a certain field.
What is horizontal integration?
100
This was the first labor union.
What is the Knights of Labor?
100
This man was famous for inventing the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
This part of a ship, below its deck, had cramped conditions and was where many immigrants experienced seasickness and sometimes death.
What is steerage?
200
This was a way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply
What is the Bessemer process?
200
This term refers to total ownership of a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
200
This was another labor union which organized individual national unions.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
200
These brothers were responsible for building a lightweight airplane that used a small, gas-powered engine.
Who are Wilbur and Orville Wright?
200
This term refers to aid organizations which offered immigrants help in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death.
What are benevolent societies?
300
This term refers to exclusive rights to make or sell inventions
What is a patent?
300
This act made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
This term refers to all workers acting together
What is collective bargaining?
300
These three men were the first business magnates.
Who are Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Leland Stanford?
300
This act banned Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
These are businesses that sell portions of ownership called stock shares
What are corporations?
400
This term refers to a legal arrangement grouping together a number of companies under a single board of directors.
What is a trust?
400
This riot began when someone threw a bomb that wounded many police officers and killed eight.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
400
This man led the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
400
This term refers to residential neighborhoods outside of downtown areas.
What are the suburbs?
500
This term refers to ownership of businesses involved in each step a manufacturing process
What is vertical integration?
500
This term refers to a view of society which is based on scientist Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.
What is social Darwinism?
500
This strike stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs.
What is the Pullman strike?
500
This woman helped to found the Hull House and focused on the needs of immigrant families and reformed child labor laws.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
This term refers to neighborhood centers in poor areas that offered education, recreation, and social activities.
What are settlement houses?
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