People
American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall.
Boss Tweed
Minimal government interference in business and companies to operate with little regulation - led to rapid industrial growth but then economic inequality.
Laissez-faire economics
Community Centers that provided social services, education, etc to immigrants and the poor.
Settlement Houses
Labor protest in Chicago that turned violent from a bomb explosion leading to the deaths of several police officers and civilians.
Haymarket Strike
Invented the light bulb helping technology develop.
Thomas Edison
He monopolized the oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
Journalists who exposed corruption, inequality, and social injustice, it helped inspire progressive reforms.
Muckrakers
Connected eastern and western United States, revolutionized transportation, commerce, and accelerated westward expansion.
Transcontinental Railroad
A nationwide railroad strike that began at the Pullman Company; protested for wage cuts and high rents.
Pullman Strike
Act passed to ensure sanitary conditions and safety of meat products.
Meat Inspection Act
He founded the Steel Industry
Andrew Carnegie
Overcrowded poorly built apartments that housed many immigrants - very unsanitary and dirty.
Tenements
Immigration stations where millions of immigrants were processed upon their arrival in search of new opportunities.
Ellis Island
Workers protest in the Carnegie Steel company about wage cuts, hard working conditions, etc.
Homestead Strike
When and where did new immigrants come?
Came from southern and eastern europed
Between 1880s and 1900s.
She founded Hull House in Chicago, providing social and educational services for immigrants and the poor.
Jane Addams
Wealthy industrialist who practice to increase their fortunes (bad)
Business leaders who contributed positively to the economy (good)
Robber Baron
Captain of Industry
Method for mass-producing steel
Bessemer Process
A federal law that restricted immigration from China. Chinese workers were blamed for taking jobs and driving down wages.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Push and Pull Factors for Immigrants
Push-Poverty, religious persecution, political unrest
Pull-job opportunities, freedom, a better life
He was a journalist/photographer who exposed the harsh living conditions in New York City's tenements.
Jacob Riis
The fire that killed a lot of young workers.
New regulations included workplace safety laws and the establishment of labor unions to advocate for workers' rights.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
A novel by Upton Sinclair that exposes the harsh working conditions and unsanitary practices in the meatpacking industry.
The Jungle
A law that aimed at breaking up monopolies and promoting competition by making it illegal to restrain trade or attempt to create monopolies.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Monopoly and Political Machines
Monopoly-Bussineses that dominated entire indutires and eliminated competition to control prices etc.
Political machines- Controlled governments by trading favors for votes and often engaging in corruption.