Robber Barons
Describe a Robber Baron
Unfair, harsh, wealthy men who used their power to drive our competition and treat workers poorly
Samuel Morse
What act gave any American up to 160 acres of land with the requirement that they would improve it and live on it for 5 years?
The Homestead Act
What did Sinclair's book The Jungle ACCOMPLISH?
The formation of the FDA
Meat inspection proccesses
What did the political cartoon titled Recently Discovered Wild Beast compare the Irish to?
Compared the Irish to wild animals that must be caged
What is a group of crows called?
A murder
What is horizontal integration?
When a company buys or merges with another company that makes the exact same kind of product/service
What did Henry BESSEMER invent that lowered the cost of construction and manufacturing?
The Bessemer Process (mass-produced steel)
What was used as an explosive to blast tunnels through moutains?
Nitroglycerin
What did Sincair's book the Junge HIGHLIGHT?
The unsanitary and harsh conditions in the meatpacking industry
In the poltical cartoon titled My Children, what positive message was depicted about immigration?
Says that America should welcome all immigrants as their children
The egg!
What is vertical integration?
What did the Wright Brothers invent and what impact did it have on this industry?
They invented powered airplanes and it opened a new era of global transportation
The Pacific Railway Act
Which strike resulted in the American Railway union being dismantled?
The Pullman Strike
What did the political cartoon titled Looking Backward show?
What mammal lays eggs?
The Platypus
What was Vanderbilt known for?
Shipping and railroads
How did Alexander Graham Bell's invetion of the telephone impact society?
Connected people across long distances
In April 1860 the competition between the UP and CP companies got intense and the CP workers laid a record of 10 miles of track in one day to get ahead
Haymarket Strike
Define: Pull Factor
The things that draw you to immigrate to another country (hope, land, freedom)
Which water animal can regrow its arm?
Starfish
What is the definition of a monopoly?
A company that eliminates competition to completely control one industry
Powered the modern electrical age
What was the world's first mass-media event that occurred in May of 1869?
The driving of the Golden spike that marked the completion of the transcontinental railroad
If you could work today, would you? WHY OR WHY NOT
Define: Push Factor
The things that are making you leave your home country (famine, overcrowing, religious problems)
Which animal has rectangular pupils?
Goats