Prejudices During the Gilded Ages
A dislike for immigrants and Native Americans; prefer you are a citizen born in America.
What is Nativism?
The population moves from rural to urban areas, leading to the growth of cities. Immigrants looking for a jobs opportunities migrate to American causing growth of cities.
What is Urbanization?
A business arrangement, Gilded Ages, where a body of trustees holds a controlling interest in multiple companies to manage them as a single entity (or company), effectively creating a monopoly to control an industry and reduce competition.
What is trust?
A revolutionary, inexpensive method for the mass production of steel developed by Henry Bessemer in 1856; and the ability to bend steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
A powerful, highly organized political party that controlled a municipal(local) or state government(like Texas) through patronage(giving favors to people you know), bribery, and the exchange of favors.
What is Political Machines?
The process where Native Americans or immigrants melt/transform into America's culture leaving their on culture.
What is assimilation?
The appeal for immigrants to settle into areas with their people around them. To keep their culture and language and feel more comfortable settling in the U.S.
What is ethnic neighborhoods?
A single business with dominant market control? A businessman that would like to control one industry; such as J.D. Rockefeller with Standard Oil.
What is monopoly?
Allowed more work hours in the early morning and late night
What is the light-bulb industry?
Civil Service Commission oversaw the hiring of government workers based on a merit system(examination). It help to prevent patronage.
The affect of the Pendleton Act on Political Machines?
The process of immigrants taking on American culture, values, and customs, often under pressure to assimilate into America's society.
What is Americanization?
Urbanization, increased jobs, growth of cities especially in the Northeast U.S.
What were the effects of increased industrialization?
The first U.S. federal regulatory(rules to control) agency, created in 1887 by the Interstate Commerce Act(law) to regulate the nation's railroad industry to prevent unfair practices and monopolistic(trying to monopolize a industry) behavior.
What is Interstate Commerce Commission?
Known as the Steel King, he grew the steel industry. Wrote and encouraged the “Gospel of Wealth” encouraging rich families to benefit society. Built schools, hospitals, and libraries in many cities.
How did Andrew Carnegie contribute to industry and society?
A 1882 U.S. federal law that prohibited all Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States and barred(stopped) them from becoming citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Factories, new inventions, entrepreneurs, businessmen, and a need for income will cause this to happen in a country.
What is urbanization?
Dangerous working conditions, long hours with low pay, workers had no power to change the system.
What are reasons for the development of Labor Unions during the Gilded Ages?
War, religious oppression, bad or no jobs, famine causes immigrants to leave their country.
Stable government and economy, liberties, better jobs causes immigrants to be drawn to a country.
What is Push Factor?
What is Pull Factor?
Union officials were arrested, troops sent in to put down the strike, federal courts ruled in favor of business, Labor Day was created to honor the workers.
What is the outcome of the Pullman Strike on workers and businesses?