Vocabulary
The process of rural areas becoming cities by a population growth in that area.
What is urbanization?
Two railroad companies selected to build the transcontinental railroad.
What is The Central Pacific Railroad (west to east) and the Union Pacific Railroad (east to west)?
A multispindled frame allowed a worker to use eight spools at once which drastically reduced the time it took to spin thread together.
What is the spinning jenny?
A wealthy, powerful, and influential person in business.
What is business tycoon?
An organization that fights for the rights of every empoyee in the company.
What are labor unions?
A company that controls all or nearly all of the businesses of an industry.
What is a monopoly?
The animal that almost became extinct due to the transcontinetal railroad.
What is the buffalo?
Parts which are identical.
What are interchangeable parts?
A person who employed unethical methods to eliminate their competition and develop a monopoly in their industry.
What is a robber baron?
Orphans who sell newspapers.
What are newsies?
Crossing a continent
What is transcontinental?
Much of the land that was granted by congress to construct the railroad belonged to....
Who are the Native Americans?
An industry which turns raw goods like cotton and wool into clothing sheets and towels.
What is the textile industry?
A person who promotes the welfare of others and donates to charities (philanthropists).
What is a captain of industry?
Someone who works grueling hours in a dark dangerous place who risks getting black lung disease.
Who is a coal miner?
The amount of goods and services available and the desire of buyers for it.
What is supply and demand?
Falling rocks, debris, avalanches, brutal summers and accidental explosions.
What are the risks the workers faced?
The ability to manufacture a significant amount of goods or products.
What is mass production?
This business tycoon created affordable automobiles for transportation.
Who is Henry Ford?
Places that were crammed with machinery and workers, poorly lit and often locked workers in to prevent them from taking breaks.
What is a factory?
Wealth in the form of money or materials that can be used by a person or business.
What is capital?
Irish immigrants, former slaves, confederate vetern soldiers, Chinese immigrants.
Who built the railroad?
British mechanic who brought the designs for the spinning jenny to America.
Who was Samual Slater?
This business tycoon controlled approximately 90% of the piplines (oil) in the United States.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
A type of protest conducted by labor unions if an agreement with the company cannot be reached.
What is a labor strike?