Big Business & Industry
A business practice where one company controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
People who sold their labor for wages in factories.
Who are industrial workers?
Overcrowded apartment buildings in cities.
What are tenements?
Political organizations that controlled cities by trading jobs for votes.
What are political machines?
Law that limited the power of monopolies.
Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in this industry.
What is steel?
Long hours, low pay, and unsafe conditions describe this type of work environment.
What are poor working conditions?
The two major immigration processing stations on the East and West Coasts.
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?
Famous New York political machine led by Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
Law that regulated food safety
The process of a company taking control of its product's supply chain
What is Vertical Intergration?
Workers joined together in these groups to demand better treatment.
What are labor unions?
Reasons people left their home country and reasons they were attracted to the United States.
What are push and pull factors?
Journalists who exposed corruption and injustice.
Who are muckrakers?
Author who exposed unsafe meatpacking conditions.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Large companies that combined to control prices and reduce competition.
What are trusts?
A violent labor protest in Chicago involving protestors and police
What is the Haymarket Riot?
The belief that native-born Americans were superior to immigrants.
What is nativism?
Ida Tarbell exposed corruption in this company.
What is Standard Oil?
What Progressives wanted the government to do to big business and society.
What is reform and regulate?
The term used to describe wealthy industrial leaders like Carnegie and Rockefeller.
Who were captains of industry (or robber barons)?
A violent strike at Carnegie’s steel plant that showed how far companies would go to stop unions.
What is the Homestead Strike?
The process of rapid migration and immigration to large cities
What is Urbanization?
The goal of reformers during the Progressive Era.
What is to fix problems caused by industrialization and corruption?
Photographer who exposed poor living conditions in cities.
Who is Jacob Riis?