Industrialization
Railroad that connected locations across the country.
Transcontinental Railroad
Steel
Andrew Carnegie
Gaining control of an industry through controlling each aspect of production.
Vertical Integration
East Coast immigration processing center, NY
Ellis Island
low rent apartments built the poorest parts of town called slums
tenements
this allowed the production of faster, cheaper goods.
assembly line
Oil
JD Rockefeller
Gaining control of an industry by buying out or destroying competitors.
horizontal integration
West Coast immigration processing center, San Francisco, CA
Angel Island
Photographer that exposed tenement living conditions and published "How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob Riis
How things were made prior to industrialization/Gilded Age
handmade/homemade
Railroads
Vanderbilt
Complete control of an industry.
Monopoly
Statue of Liberty
First nationwide strike
Railroad strike of 1877
a powerful business leader, entrepreneur, or owner who built and managed large-scale industrial enterprises
industrialist/Captain of industry
Banking
JP Morgan
A group of companies working together to control prices.
Trust
Many Americans view of immigrants with a sense of fear and hostility
Nativism
Became a national union of skilled and unskilled workers and wanted broad political reforms
Knights of Labor