The practice of combining two different companies into one.
What is consolidation?
100
A person who is anti-immigrant
What is a nativist?
100
One of the first railroad barons
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
100
These were some of the "push" factors that led to many immigrants leaving their country for America (Name at least 3)
What is overcrowding, poverty, no jobs, ethnic discrimination?
100
These are some of the "pull factors that made America an attractive alternative to living in Europe (Name at least 2)
What is jobs, land, hope?
200
Factory method in which work moves past stationary workers who perform a single task
What is an assembly line?
200
A type of residence that is often run-down and crowded
What is a tenement?
200
Owner of U.S. Steel, one of the largest companies in history
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
The growth of labor unions helped workers in this way
What is allowed for better pay, lower hours, job security?
200
These were the two prominent literary movements during the late 1800s
What is regionalism and realism?
300
A combination of firms and corporations formed by a legal document, especially to reduce competition
What is a trust?
300
Discussion between an employer and union representatives of workers over wages, hours and working conditions for the union members as a whole
What is collective bargaining?
300
Inventor of the Model T, one of the first businessmen to utilize the assembly line on a large scale.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
These are the factors of production
What is land, labor, and capital?
300
These were some of the revolutionary advances in transportation discussed in chapter 20 (Name 2)
What are cars, trains, planes, trolley cars.
400
Organization of workers who seek better pay and working conditions
What is a labor union?
400
A type of theatrical show, with dancing, singing, comedy, and magic acts
What is vaudeville?
400
Leader of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
400
How did the growth of railways fundamentally change the lives of Americans?
What is quicker travel time, opportunity to move westward, new way to acquire goods and services.
400
Describe some of the changes in education during the late 1800s. (Name at least 2)
What is more schools, learning through doing, colleges for women, colleges for African Americans, boarding schools for native americans.
500
Used to make goods and services
What are the factors of production?
500
A type of journalism based on sensational stories
What is yellow journalism?
500
Famous African America writer
Who is Paul Lawrence Dunbar?
500
Name all 3 factors of production and how they were important to the creation of goods and services
What is
Land - Space needed to build/create goods/services
Labor - Workers needed to create good/service
Capital - Supplies needed to produce good/service
500
These were some of the reasons spectator sports became popular in America.
What is increase in free time, increase in disposable income, increased interest in physical fitness?