Key People of 1800s Industrialism
Key Terms
The Rise of Big Business
Workers Organize
Miscellaneous
100
The head of the Standard Oil Company of the 1800s, who utilized horizontal integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
100
The term used to describe people coming to America, from other countries, between 1851 and 1900, for reasons such as crop failure, land and job shortages, relief from religious and political persecution.
What is immigration?
100
A company that controls or dominates an industry.
What is a monopoly?
100
This union welcomed unskilled workers, women, and African Americans into their membership and had the motto "an injury to one is concern of all"
What is the Knights of Labor Union?
100
In 1882, the Act, by Congress, banning further immigration of the Chinese.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
The author who coined the term "Gilded Age".
Who is Mark Twain?
200
The economic theory of survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
During the late 1800's, industrialization led to the growth of the____________________.
What is the middle class?
200
Law that made it illegal to form trusts that interfered with free trade and prohibited monopolies and activities that hindered competition in the marketplace
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
200
An anti-immigration movement that favored those descended from the original 13 colonies--keep America for Americans.
What is nativism?
300
American author who wrote the book titled "The Jungle" in 1906, exposing horrific conditions of the meat packing industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair
300
This group of people exposed social problems to the public.
What are muckrakers?
300
A company that controls or dominates an industry.
What is a monopoly.
300
A result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was mandatory inspections establishing___________.
What is fire safety?
300
The first successful U.S. settlement
What is Jamestown?
400
He was the first African American Man to receive a PHD from Harvard. He urged blacks to concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois
400
A term used to describe business people who employ ruthless business tactics against their competitors.
What is a robber baron?
400
This cartoon portrays the idea that the Standard Oil Company is a_________________.
What is a harmful monopoly?
400
A labor union that organized skilled workers in a specific trade and made specific demands rather than making broad changes in industry.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
400
The amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
She founded the first settlement house in 1889 in Chicago, called the Hull House
Who is Jane Addams
500
An economic theory that the market functions best when the government does not interfere.
What is laissez-faire capitalism.
500
When a company owns two or more stages of production.
What is vertical integration?
500
When labor unions were first established in the 1800's, the main benefits they were able to obtain for their members.
What are improved hours and wages?
500
Preventing African Americans from exercising their right to vote, (challenging the 15th Amendment) by asking them to read a passage and then give their interpretation, would be an example of a _____________________________.
What is a literacy test?