Industry + economy
What is the term that describes a lack of government involvement in the economy
What is Laissez Faire
Which Gilded Age president also served in the Civil War
Who is U.S. Grant
What is it called when workers refuse to work?
What is a strike?
What is nativism?
what is a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
Which colonial political party favored a laissez faire economy?
Who are the anti-federalists
What is the main difference between vertical and horizontal Integration
What is: horizontal buys out competitors while vertical controls all aspects of manufacturing
What is the name of a very corrupt politician
Which event caused the public to view unions poorly?
What is the Haymarket Bombing?
What region of the world did New Immigrants come from?
What other economic recession had similar causes to the Panic of 1873
What is the Great Depression
Why did the farmers dislike railroad companies?
Railroads were overcharging farmers for transport
What was passed to protect American industry?
What are Tariffs?
What prompted the creation of labor unions? (name one)
unsafe working conditions
low wages
not reliable job employment (can be fired anytime)
What island did immigrants pass through before entering the US?
What is Ellis Island
What early form of transportation (came before railroads) connected and united the country: benefitting trade and industry
what are canals
What is social darwinism?
What is strong companies should eat weak companies...the world's wealth should go to those deemed most fit
What is one cause of the panic of 1873?
Overproduction of products
OR
Over-speculation in markets
Which strike did a president have to put down?
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
What was one reason that people immigrated/migrated to cities?
Manufacturing jobs
religious freedom
money
Who were the old immigrants? (name two)
Who are Irish, German, and English immigrants
Which tycoon embodied the term "The Gospel of Wealth"?
Who is Andrew Carnegie
Which act reversed Patronage (giving jobs to supporters w/o merit)?
What is the Pendleton Act
Who opened labor unions to women, unskilled workers, and black laborers?
Who is Terence Powderly?
Name two reasons why New Immigrants had a harder time assimilating than Old Immigrants?
-Different ideals (communism/socialism)
arrived poor
illiterate
What is the Know-Nothing Party