Capitalism
The American economy is based on the laws of ____ and ____.
What is supply and demand?
The Knights of Labor was the first of these types of groups that fought for better pay, better working conditions, and shorter work hours.
What is a labor union?
Most European immigrants entered the US through this center.
What is Ellis Island?
John D. Rockefeller was the head of THIS monopoly.
What is Standard Oil?
The completion of THIS helped open up the West to further development.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
When one company controls all of a good or service it is called a:
What is a monopoly?
The invention of THIS led to longer work hours for Americans in factories.
What is electricity?
Angel Island was originally designed to help enforce THIS policy.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Which captain of industry made his fortune in the railroad business?
Who is Vanderbilt?
Many Native American children were forced to go to boarding schools, like THIS infamous one in Pennsylvania?
What is Carlisle Indian School?
Capitalism is based on the idea of free markets and little government intervention. The French word for this is:
What is laissez-faire?
When labor unions could not get a factory owner to negotiate with them, they often resulted to THESE. Examples include Haymarket Square, Pullman, and Homestead.
What is a strike?
Jane Addams is known as the first social worker in the US because she opened THIS settlement house in Chicago.
What is Hull House?
Which captain of industry made his money in steel?
Who is Carnegie?
This act gave settlers up to 160 acres of land in exchange for a small registration fee and the promise to improve the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
During the Gilded Age, American factories focused on using THIS system to produce as much "stuff" as possible
What is mass production?
This man was the head of the American Federation of Labor, which focused on skilled workers only.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Most immigrants lived in these poorly made apartment-style buildings.
What is a tenement?
Which captain of industry made his fortune in banking?
Who is JP Morgan?
This act broke up reservations and tried to force Native Americans to assimilate by owning property and farming.
What is the Dawes Act?
When one company owns all of the suppliers and distributors of a good or service, they have completed:
What is vertical integration?
In 1911, over 100 immigrant women died in this tragic industrial "accident" by either jumping to their deaths or perishing in a fire.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Most native-born Americans expected immigrants to learn English and adopt the "American" way of life. This is called:
What is assimilation?
This theory basically says the rich deserve to be rich and the poor are poor because they just are not smart enough to get rich.
What is social darwinism?
THIS massacre happened when Native Americans gathered to perform the Ghost Dance; over 250 men, women, and children were killed.
What is Wounded Knee?