Captains of Industry
Change from agriarian society to a "machinery" society.
What was industrialization?
A line of railroads that connect the east coast and the west coast of the U.S.
What is a Transcontintental Railroad?
System of related beliefs/ ideas about people, society, economics and government.
What are Ideologies?
A person who leaves their country to go to another and stay.
What is Immigration?
What is Americanization?
What is Monopoly?
Federal law that prohibits any trust or contract in restraint of interstate or foreign trade.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Where children were put to work in bad conditions and long hours.
What is Child Labor?
Where there are different social classes. High, middle, and lower class.
What is a Class System?
An agreement that Japanese Americans could no longer migrate to the U.S.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
When people have their free will on what to buy, where to work, and even, what to make.
What is a Market Economy?
A process which increased the quality and amount of steel being produced.
What was the Bessemer Process?
Union founded by Samuel Gompers who accepted unskilled workers but did not accept african americans, women, nor service workers; Focused on better wages, hours, and conditions.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
A group who specializes in hating immigrants.
What is Navitism?
Was ran by powerful politicians who did big favors for people in return for bribes/ votes.
What are Political Machines?
Madame C.J. Walker
Who was one African American Inventor?
A person who invests their time, money, and skills on the chance of making a profit.
What is an Entrepenuer?
A belief that people who do good in society is because some people are born being better than others; natural selection in humans.
What is Social Darwinism?
Immigrants that came from Europe, were trying to escape religious/ political persecution, tried to find economic oppurtunities, and mostly came from Ireland.
What is an old immigrant?
Immigrants who spoke little to no English, mostly catholics/Jews/Orthodox Christian, different appearences from Northern Europeans, many were poor with little to no education, etc.
What is a new immigrant?
A transportation or transaction of money, service, or products from across state borders.
What was the interstate commerce act?
A regulation of railroad rates.
What was the interstate commerce commision?
Founded by Terrence Powderly. Accepted skilled and unskilled workers, women, and african americans; wanted to end child labor, equal wages for women, and 8-8-8 workday plan.
Who were the knights of labor?
An agreement that the U.S. and Japan had to ease tension between the two countries.
What was the Gentlemens Agreement?
Immigration centers in New York.
What was Ellis and Angel Island about?