Immigration
This causes someone to leave their country.
What are push factors?
This is the term for the period of American history where industry was growing and labor rights were few.
What is the Gilded Age.
A famous New Yorker who made his fortune in shipping and in investing in railroads.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Blamed for the Haymarket Riot, this labor union declined after being associated with violence.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
This method of steel production cheaply produced vast quantities of steel needed for construction.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The immigration station that was on the West Coast and largely processed immigrants from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
A business owned by many people.
What is a corporation?
A native of Scotland who brought the Bessemer process to America.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union took part in this New York general strike in 1910.
What is the Uprising of the 20,000?
The inventor behind the electrical power station and the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The word for people who flee their home country because of war, disease, or famine.
What is a refugee?
A group of companies that work together to control prices and reduce competition.
What is a trust?
American financier who founded one of the world’s largest private banks.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Young children often worked jobs in or such as ____?
1. Mines
2. Cotton Mills
3. Farms
4. Newsies
Alexander Graham Bell invented the first practical what?
What is the telephone?
Jacob Riis photographed and wrote about New York tenements in this book.
What is "How the Other Half Lives"?
A person who takes risks to make money and start a business. Their business may or may not be based on an original idea.
What is an entrepreneur?
He made his fortune through the Standard Oil Company, giving him a virtual monopoly on oil production in the US.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This strike at one of Carnegie Steel’s mills resulted in the deaths of 9 workers.
What is the Homestead Strike?
Several people contributed to this method of making things in large quantities very quickly through production lines.
What is mass production?
The cheapest and lowest class space on a steamship that immigrants typically took.
What is steerage?
This is when one company controls nearly all a product or service and lacks competition.
What is a monopoly?
A negative term for a business person in the 19th century who ruthlessly crushed competition and labor movements.
A factory or business that only hires from within a union.
What is a closed shop?
Wilbur and Orville Wright are credited with building and flying the first practical one of these.
What is the aeroplane?