People and Vocabulary
American Industrial Revolution
Big Business
Immigration
Labor
100

Hired by Carnegie to take care of business at the Homestead Steel Factory.

Who is Frisk?
100
What is the Bessemer Process?
What is the process for making steel quickly and cheaply?
100
This means a company controls all production and distribution, as no competitors.
What is a monopoly?
100
This act limited the number of these immigrants from coming to America. What group was banned?
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
Most people moved to the cities in search of these.
What is jobs.
200

Name used to describe the years between the end of the Civil War to the turn of the 20th century. America became more prosperous but was also characterized by greed and corruption

Who is the Gilded Age?

200
These people helped investigate problems during the Gilded Age.
What is Muckrakers?
200
Define the term Robber Baron.
Who is a wealthy businessman who abuses their workers and uses corrupt business practices.
200
This group was seen as an obstacle to white settlement and was forced to assimilate.
What is Native Americans/Dawes Act?
200
Workers from the same trade that come together for the purpose of bargaining and negotiation. What is this??
What is a labor union.
300

When a single company controls an entire product; vertical and horizontal integration

What is a monopoly?

300
This allowed for goods/people to be shipped from the east coast to the west coast and vice-versa.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This man was founder of the Standard Oil Company which was a virtual monopoly in the late 1800s?
300
What is an immigration quota?
Nativist wanted to pass immigration quotas to limit the number of immigrants coming into the country and competing for jobs.
300
This group of immigrants worked in harsh conditions such as rock slides and heavy snowfall to help build the transcontinental railroad.
What is the Chinese.
400

Time period in which the federal government struggled with how to return the eleven southern states to the Union

What is Reconstruction?

400
What are 2 negative effects of the Industrial Revolution?
What is pollution, crime, disease, big business corruption, racism towards immigrants, child labor, etc.
400
This term is defined as a major growth in the size and population of cities.
What is urbanization?
400
Name 2 push factors that caused immigrants to leave there homelands.
What is famines, religious oppression, war, etc?
400
Upton Sinclairs book, "the Jungle" exposed....
What is the horrible working conditions in meat packing plants.
500

Laws that kept African Americans and whites segregated

What are Jim Crow laws?

500
The theory of Social Darwinism claim people and businesses were successful based on "Survival of ......."
What is "the fittest"
500
Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P Morgan, and Vanderbilt were all known as this term because they were extremely rich through corrupt business deals.
What is robber barons?
500
Provide 2 reasons immigrants came to the US (Pull Factors).
What is economic opportunities (easy to get rich), lots of cheap land, jobs, start a new life, religious freedom, etc.
500
Name 2 workplace or labor reforms that the Progressives fought for...
What is 8 hr workday, improved safety, better pay, restrictions on child labor, and unionization.
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