Industrialization
A Scottish immigrant who created a multi-million dollar steel business.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is a New Immigrant?
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories
What are tenements?
This led to the direct election of senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
These were the main source of inland transportation
What are railroads?
powerful industrialists who dominate their industry and exploited their power at the expense of the average American worker
Who are Robber Barons?
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is Nativism?
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
the time period in US history when alcohol use, manufacture, and sale was illegal (1920-1933)
What is Prohibition?
raising these made it difficult for farmers to sell their surplus to international markets
What are tariffs?
founded Standard Oil Company in 1872 and used both vertical integration and horizontal integration
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
These immigrants came before 1890 and were mostly from Northern and Western Europe
What are Old Immigrants?
investigative journalists would expose corruption, horrid working conditions, abuse of workers, in order to sell newspapers
Who are Muckrackers?
the idea that Christians should promote social and economic reform for the betterment of society
What was the Social Gospel?
This group of people/workers were typically hit the hardest, even during "boom" cycles and were said to have experienced the Great Depression far before anyone else.
Who are farmers?
an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street
Who is J P Morgan?
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The purpose of these was to provide help and guidance by educating immigrants in American ways of dress and custom, in addition to providing recreational facilities and social services
What are Settlement Houses or Charities
These were the three progressive Presidents
Who are Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Taft?
a negotiation process between a group of employees and their employer to establish the terms and conditions of employment
What is Collective Bargaining
made all trusts illegal but the law was virtually unenforceable and there were many loopholes
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This is where a society is made up of people from many different ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds
What is a Melting Pot
Employers or members of the ownership class who would do favors for people, bribe, and rip off the federal government to maintain or stay in power
What is a Political Boss/Machine?
The application of natural selection to solve political, ethical, and societal issues
What is Social Darwinism?
an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better working conditions, pay, and benefits
What is Labor Unions?