Robber Barons
Vocabulary
Industrial Revolution Misc.
Immigration
Progressive Era
100
Who is responsible for building the Vanderbilt estate?
George Washington Vanderbilt
100
Movement of people from rural areas to urban areas
Urbanization
100
resources that can be manufactured, processed, or combined to create a new and useful product, such as the wood that is made into a chair.
Raw Materials
100
Most European Immigrants came through this port of entry in New York....
Ellis Island
100
U.S. President responsible for the creation of the National Parl Service.
Theodore Roosevelt
200
What is a Robber Baron?
were American businessmen who made their fortune by creating monopolies in their industries
200
an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product. Created by Henry Ford
Assembly Line
200
involved pouring molten iron into a large container and then blasting the iron with air. This process removed impurities and changed the iron to steel
Bessemer Process
200
passed and stopped all immigrants from China from coming to America for almost a century.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
200
journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era sought to expose corruption in big business and government and influenced the passage of key legislation that strengthened protections for workers and consumers.
Muckrakers
300
Created the United States Steel Corporation, built libraries, and funded scientific and educational institutions, and more
Andrew Carnegie
300
A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils System
300
Railroad connecting the West Coast to the East Coast
Transcontinental Railroad
300
Explain the process in which an immigrant went through to pass through Ellis Island.
People were sent into the Great Hall
where a doctor inspected them for
illness.
Next spoke with an inspector that had a
sheet with 29 questions about where the
person came from, name, religion,
gender, and why they were coming to
America
Inspectors of Ellis Island spoke multiple
languages
Next, the person received their landing
card giving them permission to enter the
country.
Almost everyone was approved that
came through Ellis Island
300
President Roosevelt's Square Deal consisted of what he called the Three C's. What do the Three C's stand for?
Consumer Protection, Control of Corporations, and Conservation
400
Made his fortune by buying up companies and merging them. mostly in the Railroad Industry.
J.P. Morgan
400
the application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the workplace
Scientific Management
400
What two business ideas helped in advertising and sales contribute to people buying more goods?
Department Stores and Mail-Order Catalogs
400
The first wave of European Immigrants came mostly from what three countries?
England, Ireland, and Germany
400
The Women's Suffrage movement helped women earn the right to vote. What amendment to the Constitution allowed women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
500
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
500
Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution
Vertical Integration
500
Name one invention from the Industrial Revolution that improved Agriculture
Mechanical Reaper, Steel Plow, Combine, Steam Powered Machines.
500
The second wave of European Immigrants came mostly from which three countries?
Poland, Italy, and Russia
500
Explain either the Sherman Anti-Trust Laws or the Meat Inspection/Food and Drug Act of 1906
Anti-Trust Laws: The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed in 1890, and it outlawed trusts.
➔ A trust is a combination of firms formed by a legal agreement.
➔ The next laws passed were the Clayton Act of 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914.
➔ Both were antitrust laws aimed at eliminating monopolies and allowing for equal competition among competitors.
Meat Packing/Food and Drug: Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle: which highlighted disgusting working conditions and unsanitary processes used in cutting/packing meat.
● President Theodore Roosevelt passed Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
● Laws required federal inspection of meats & prevented canned foods/pharmaceuticals from being contaminated by foreign objects or mislabeled.
● Made food higher quality and safer to eat
● Less confusion with drug labels
● Laws eventually led to the forming of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)