Captains of Industry
A person that invests their time, money and skills on the chance of making a profit.
Who is an entrepreneur?
A term used to describe a transition into a more developed and advanced industry.
What is industrializaiton?
Laborers benefited by making children work for them for less than what was given to adults
What is child labor?
Produced a better quality of steel making farm equipment more efficiently.
What is Bessemer Process?
In the 1880’s, which group of immigrants faced the most discrimination in California.
Who are the Chinese?
This person had a monopoly on 90% of all oil refined.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This person created the telephone, allowing for greater communication.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Groups of laborers come together to advocate for better wages, working conditions and hours
What is labor unions?
These immigrants had very little money and most of them found jobs in the factories of cities.
Who are the Europeans?
These people despised immigrants and wanted them to go back where they came from.
Who are Nativists?
The era in which the U.S. seemed as if it were thriving but it was not doing so well
What is the gilded age?
This person invented the lightbulb, allowing factories to run 24/7.
Who is Thomas Edison?
A labor union formed in 1869 that joined together skilled and unskilled workers of all different backgrounds, whose main goals were to end child labor, have equal opportunity and wages for women, and eight hour workdays.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Most African Americans migrated north to the cities in search of work in factories.
What is the Great Migration?
This policy denied Japanese immigrants entry to America.
What is the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
This captain of industry built the Florida East Coast Railroad.
Who is Henry Flagler?
A system where people have the freedom to make their own choices in what to buy, where to work, and what to make.
What is the Free Enterprise System?
This ideology argued that both individuals and societies were in fact in competition with one another, and only the strongest would survive.
What is Social Darwinism?
Many families were forced to live in single room apartments that often lacked the basic needs.
What are tenements?
Immigrant Children who learned to dress,speak, and act like other Americans.
What is Americanization?
This captain helped organize U.S. steel, general electric and other major corporations
Who is John Pierpont Morgan?
This person created steam engines for the improvement of transportation.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
A riot at Haymarket Square in 1886 that made the end for the Knights of Labor
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Ran by powerful Politicians who did favors for people in return for their vote.
What is a political machine?
The first federal law to restrict immigration in the U.S
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?