This innovation created a faster & more practical way to transport goods, created a national market, lowered costs of production and intersected in Promontory Point, Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
This was a vast area of grassland that the federal government owned. Cattle would grazed in this area.
What is a open range?
100
Taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally.
What is protective tariffs?
100
A number of people share the ownership of a business. Therefore the investor will not lose no more than the original investment.
What is a corporation?
100
1. Railroads
2. New Inventions
3. Increase of Labor
4. Access to raw materials
5. Mass Production
What are the causes of industrialization?
200
This piece of legislation was designed to break up (dissolve) monopolies & trusts.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
200
A tract of public land available for settlement. Up to 160 acres of land and could receive title to that land after living for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
Invented the light bulb in 1879. This invention extended the work day.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Complete control of a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
200
The belief that held wealth was a measure of one's inherent value and those who had it were the most "fit"
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Two nicknames that industrialists like John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie had since they were both philanthropists but also men who gained their wealth using questionable methods.
What are Captains of Industry & Robber Barons?
300
This technological innovation helped put an end the open range system.
What is barbed wire?
300
Invented the telephone in 1876. This invention improve communication.
Who is Alexander Bell?
300
Oversee railroad operations.
What is the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)?
300
Negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions. One example of this is a strike.
What is collective bargaining?
400
Labor organization characterized by the following: female & blacks members allowed to join, supported 8-hour work days, and worked to abolish child labor.
Who was the Knights of Labor?
400
Land set aside by the government for Native American.
What is a resveration?
400
Allow businesses to operate under minimal government regulation.
What is laissez-faire?
400
Made it easier to make steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
He was the founder of the AFL American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gomper?
500
Method used by Carnegie Steel where they would purchase and control all phases of a products production.
What is vertical consolidation?
500
The government hoped as the buffalo became extinct, Native Americans would become farmers and adopt the culture and civilization of whites.
What is assimilation?
500
Sewing Machine revolutionizes the way clothes are made in homes and factories.
Who is Elias Howe?
500
Known for giving money to charities?
What is a philanthropist?
500
This act was to encourage the process of assimilation for Native Americans.