Section 1
In the 1870s, Thomas Alva Edison invented this
What were the first reliable electric lights?
Reformers in the late 1800's forced Native Americans into these to "become more American"
What were boarding schools?
The government passed this act in 1882
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
One way to increase profits
What is to lower overhead?
A business in which a group of people owns shares in a large company and that acts as one entity
What is a corporation?
Christopher Shales invented this in 1868
What was the typewriter?
In 1889, Jane Adams and Ella Gates opened this
What was the Hull House?
This act mandated "equal or separate accommodations" for white and African-American train passengers
What is the Seperate Car Act?
July 1877, railroad workers throughout the world participated in this
What is the Great Railroad Strike?
The exclusive rights granted to inventors
What are patents?
The United States boasted 185,000 miles of railroad track by this year
What was 1890?
In 1873, the Tammany Hall was put to an end for this
What was corruption?
America's prejudice caused this
What was the Immigration Act of 1917?
One of the first significant national labor unions, founded in 1869
What are the Knights of Labor?
The financial support of worthy causes
What is philanthropy?
Rockefeller donated millions of dollars to build these
Around 12 million people immigrated to the U.S. through here
What was the Ellis Island?
The most influential leader between 1890 and 1915
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Railroad workers joined the Great Railroad Strike this date
What was July 1887?
The process of blowing air into molten iron
What is the Bessemer process?
In 1873, authors Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner published this novel
What was the Gilded Age?
William Magear Tweed led this Democratic party
What was Tammany Hall?
This act prohibited Chinese immigrants to immigrate to the USA for 10 years
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
In 1894, this took place
What was the Pullman Strike?
Allowed businesses to operate without much regulation
What is laissez-faire?