Big Business
This was the insulting nickname given to the big business leaders that were seen as villainous
Robber Barons
Invetor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This product was used to build railroads
steel
East coast immigration station
a period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing the late 1800’s.
Second Industrial Revolution
This was the nickname given to the big business leaders that exhibited leadership in their field and commanded the respect of the business world.
Captains of Industry
This man created a way to mass produce steal quickly by removing the carbon impurities from iron (created the process)
Henry Bessemer
These were created in order for the railroads to operate correctly across the country
time zones
West Coast immigration station
Angel Island
The decline of this animal was due to the movement and settling of the west
Buffalo
These were formed to try to protect workers' rights
Labor Unions
Big business leader who controlled the railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
In what state was the final spike (it was gold) driven into the railroad?
Utah
mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning native culture
Workers did this when they weren't seeing the changes they wanted at their place of work
strike
complete control over its industry’s production, wages, and prices
monopoly
Big business leader who controlled the oil industry during the Gilded Age
John D Rockefeller
Name of the railroad that spanned the entire country
the transcontinental railroad
Term used for favoring native born Americans over immigrants
Nativism
This act granted large pieces of land to the head of households in the west
Homestead Act
saved the nation from disaster during several economic crises.
J.P. Morgan
This big business leader controlled the steel business during the Gilded Age
Andrew Carnegie
This man created the sleeper car
George Pullman
Between 1870-1920 approximately how many Europeans arrived in the United States
Between 1870-1920 approximately 20 million Europeans arrived in the United States
This act broke up land and forced Native Americans onto reservations with their own plots
Dawes Act