Inventions and Immigration
Created the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
A group of people demanding better working conditions.
What is a Labor Union?
This was the term applied to wealthy industry owners who were seen as doing good for society.
What are Captains of Industry?
This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists who were seen as the greedy rich people.
Robber Barrons
The workforce of the Industrial Revolution was largely made up of this group of people.
What are immigrants?
This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)
What is False?
This banned all Chinese immigrants from entering the United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Business owners tried to get rid of competition by owning entire/product or service in an industry. This is called a________ (Hint: Like the board game)
What is a Monopoly/Trusts?
This person controlled the Railroad Industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
Exodusters
Coke and Pepsi are examples of this.
Monopoly
People who dislike immigrants and prefer "Native-Born" Americans are called this.
What are nativists?
Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.
What is the telephone
Mark Twain coined the term_________, a period of time that showed America was glittering on the surface but was corrupt and impoverished underneath. (hint: its what period/era we are studying)
What is the Gilded Age?
This person controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost (160 acres)
What is the Homestead Act?
This person coined the term gilded age
Who is mark twain?
Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States by connecting it to the east?
What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?
European Immigrants came through this immigration station
What is Elis Island?
the growth of businesses that manufacture products through the use of machinery/industry
What is industrialization?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.
What is Urbanization?
T mobile buying Sprint is an example of this
What is Horizontal Integration?
Term used to describe buying similar companies to reduce competition
What is Horizontal Integration?
Asian Immigrants came through this Immigration station
What is Angel Island?
a type of building shared by multiple dwellings. Typlically unkept and unsanitary during this time period.
What is a tenement?
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Minimal government regulation, favoring free market control.
Laissez Faire economics
The process of newcomers adopting the customs and culture of their new country, often involving changes in language, dress, and traditions?
What is Assimilation?
a business strategy that allows a company to control the supply chain from manufacturing to sales.
What is Vertical Integration?
Which part of the country was the Central Pacific starting from and which part was the Union Pacific starting from?
Central Pacific-west coast
Union-east coast
A common technique used by labor unions, where groups of employees refuse to work until their demands are met, is called ___________.
What is a strike?
This Gilded Age industry owner is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What is the difference between a robber baron and a captain of industry?
Term for a person who gives money to charities. Think of Carnegie.
What is a Philanthropist?
2 part:
a. Elis island is located here
b. Angel island is located here
a. New York
b. San Francisco