Industrial Capitalism
This transportation network helped to create the first truly national market.
What is "the railroads."
This language was commonly spoken among "First Wave" immigrants?
What was English?
This 1911 New York City tragedy led to the beginning of the Progressive Era commitment to health and workplace safety regulation.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
Technical term for a resident of the United States who was opposed to immigration?
What is a nativist?
"I ascribe the success of the Standard Oil Company to its consistent policy of making the volume of its business large through the merit and cheapness of its products." (title or author to get full credit)
"The Success of the Standard Oil Company" by John D. Rockefeller
Industrialist who achieved monopolistic success by bringing the Bessemer Process to the United States from England.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Immigration processing station where Italian, Russian and German immigrants could typically expect to be processed?
What is Ellis Island, New York?
The technical term for the nasty, unsafe, five story buildings that Jacob Riis photographed in "How the Other Half Lives."
What are "tenements?"
Type of immigration that included factors in the new nation like plentiful jobs and religious freedom.
What is "Pull" immigration?
"The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is also great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still, for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train." (Must get the title or author right for credit)
What is The True Gospel Concerning Wealth, by Andrew Carnegie?
Crude oil was first discovered and extracted in this state?
What is Pennsylvannia?
This was the first immigration legislation to limit the number of immigrants from a specific country.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1884?
Photograph innovation Jacob Riis used to photograph poor immigrant living conditions in Manhattan's Lower East side.
What is "flash photography?"
Technical term for payments from the railroads to the Standard Oil in return for receiving 100% of Standard Oil's shipping business.
What is a rebate? or Drawback?
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, the tempest tost to me." (must get the title or author right for credit)
What is The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus?
Name for a type of corporation that separates the legal liability of the corporation from its individual shareholders, thus encouraging risk taking?
What is a LLC or Limited Liability Corporation?
Immigration processing station typically used by Chinese immigrants?
What was Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay.
Type of community first made possible by the street car and then expanded by the introduction of the automobile.
What is "the suburb?"
Negative slur for an employee who crosses a picket line during a strike in order to go to work?
What is a scab?
Mr Rockefeller was "good." There is no more faithful Baptist in Cleveland than he. Every enterprise of the church he had supported liberally from his youth.
What is The Oil War of 1872, by Ida Tarbell?
Type of business strategy for achieving monopolistic power through controlling all of the competitors in a single phase of the "value chain" of production, for example oil refining.
What is horizontal integration?
This legislation established a total quota on immigration to United States, and specific national quotas based on the 1890 Census composition of America. (Either of two names)
What was The Johnson-Reed Act or the Immigration Act of 1924.
This 1886 strike in Chicago got out of hand, resulting in the bombing deaths of 7 police officers and four civilians. The public was not amused.
What was the Haymarket Square Riot/ Strike?
Carnegie Steel employee who hired Pinkerton Detectives during the Homestead Steel Strike
Who was Henry Clay Frick?
Suppose we look into one [tenement]? Number __ Cherry Street. Be a little careful, please! The hall is dark and you might stumble over the children pitching pennies back there. (Must get title or author right for credit)
What is "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis?