Businessmen
After selling his company, his net worth was 2% of America's GDP
Who is Andrew Carnegie
This idea caused dependency in factories instead of farms
What is Transformation
This tragedy of 1871 left 300 dead, 100k homeless, and destroyed 3 square miles of downtown Chicago
What is the Great Chicago Fire
The period of time that is characterized by overwhelming wealth and extreme waste
What is The Gilded Age
This act was passed in 1890 to try to limit power of trusts
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This person was accused of partaking in unethical practices, such as over/targeted pricing and plotting with railroad owners to eliminate competition
Who is John Rockefeller
This was the idea and act of categorizing people based off wealth & wages
What is Class Dirision
A mixture of people of different cultures and races who've blended together
What is a Melting Pot
Negotiated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 after Japan displayed anger over segregated schools for Japanese children.
What is The Gentlemen's Agreement
This caused plenty of farmers to lose their place in society as a working person
What is Populism
His father was a successful businessman, which paved the way for his eventual success
Who is JP Morgan
The act of dampening the unfair treatment in industrialism
What is the Labor Reform
This movement made the U.S. the world's most powerful economy by 1890's
What is Industrialism
This motion was created specifically for black people in 1866, just after they were freed
What is the Colored National Labor Union
This movement prompts immigration 700,000 Mexicans to the U.S. from 1910 - 1930
What is The Mexican Revolution
This man developed the first method for making steel without the high cost
Who is Henry Bessemer
The rise of immigrants arriving to work in the factories
What is Urbanization
This generalization was the idea that people worked to survive and not to live a true life
What is wage slavery
This movement of 1866 called for both skilled and unskilled people and farmers, and while excluding Chinese people, still had roughly 600k members
What is the National Labor Union
This protest led to several deaths after Carnegie hired the Pinkerton Agents to break the Union
What is The Homestead Strike
This person invented the first AC motor and transmission technology
Who is Nikola Tesla
The idea that non-Protestant Christian immigration would weaken democratic institutions
What is Nativism
These were created to enable consistent railroad schedules
What is time zones
This process allowed production of steel at a low cost
What is the Bessemer Process
Because of the need for labor on irrigation of arid lands in the west and southwest, this act was created in 1902
What is the National Reclamation Act