Robber Barons
When a single person or company controls all or most of an industry.
What is a monopoly?
Inventions like the steel plow and tractor completely changed this.
What is agriculture or farming?
A group of workers who band together seeking better pay and working conditions.
What is a labor union?
The western portion of the U.S. was linked by rail when this was completed in Promontroy, Utah?
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Immigrants from these two countries provided the bulk of the workforce that built the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are Ireland and China?
Made his fortune through steel, both gave large amounts of wealth to charity and viciously put down strikes.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Alexander Graham Bell invention that revolutionized communication.
What is the telephone?
When workers refuse to work until demands for better pay and working conditions are met.
What is a strike?
Act that provided free land in the West to settlers who would move there and improve upon the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
This law passed by Congress marked the first time in U.S. history a group had been prevented from immigrating to the United States based on race or ethnicity.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Founded Standard Oil and controlled almost all oil production and processing in the United States.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
Edison and Tesla had competing view on how to harness this, which completely changed American's way of life and allowed the opportunity for factories to operate at night.
What is electricity?
After a nationwide strike in support of 8 hour workday. Anarchist called meeting that ended in fatal bombing which killed 7, wounded dozens. The incident became known as this.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Group of Black Americans that settled Westward in places like Kansas.
Who were the Exodusters?
Immigrants from Southern Europe and the Balkans.
Who are New Immigrants?
Practice in which the very wealthy gave large sums of money to charitable causes such as eliminating hookworms or building libraries.
What is philanthropy?
Allowed for food to be transported much greater distances without spoiling.
What is the refrigerated railcar?
Strike at a steel plant which ended in violence between strikers and Pinkerton agents.
What is the Homestead Strike?
The two companies responsible for building railroad in the West.
What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
This served as the main point of entry for Europeans entering America on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
When a monopoly controls every aspect of the supply chain such as production, distribution, and sale.
What is vertical integration?
Process for making steel which was used in construction of skyscrapers and bridges.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Union that wanted broad reforms, including a 8 hour work day, and welcomed all workers
What is the Knights of Labor?
State where many Chinese settled and became center of anti-Chinese sentiment through laws like the Pig Tail ordinance.
What is California?
Political party that was very anti-immigrant as well as anti-Catholic.
What is the Know Nothing Party?