Technology + Industry
People who invest money in a product or company to make a profit.
Who are entrepreneurs?
The lower decks of immigration ships, which were in poor condition and often facilitated the spread of disease.
What is steerage?
When the number or cities and people inhabiting them increases dramatically.
What is urbanization?
In which people bought and desired new 'on the market' products, mainly due to their inexpensive prices.
What was conspicuous consumerism?
Products that are grown for the purpose of profit, rather than food or other practical use.
What are cash crops?
Policies that allowed businesses to function under minimal government regulation.
What are laissez-faire policies?
The immigration processing location for those traveling to New York City.
What is Ellis Island?
Public vehicles that could transport large numbers of people at an inexpensive price.
What is mass transit?
Inspired by Mark Twain's novel of the same name, and used to title the late 1800's.
What is the Gilded Age?
Local groups of farmers that worked together for their rights.
What was the Farmer's Alliance?
A grant by the federal government giving inventors exclusive rights to develop, use, and sell their creations.
What is a patent?
The belief that native-born white Americans were superior to immigrants.
What is nativism?
Housing that's on the perimeter of cities; usually quieter and cleaner.
What is the suburbs?
The phenomenon where the same products could be found from house to house across the country.
What is mass culture?
A law the guaranteed black patrons the right to ride on trains and use public facilities.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
Companies with complete control over a product or a service.
What are monopolies?
An Act which prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country until 1898.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Low-cost multifamily housing designed to fit as many people as possible.
What are tenements?
Theatrical entertainment using music, drama, and off-color comedy.
What is vaudeville?
An event in history where many Sioux Indians were killed by U.S army soldiers.
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
The system of combining many firms in the same company into a unit.
What is horizontal integration?
The process by which immigrants were taught the ways of being American.
What was Americanization?
A term for people who moved out from their farms to find better paying jobs in the city.
What were rural-to-urban migrants?
Typical of modern day shopping, but much more innovative in the late 1800's.
What are department stores?
A system of ranching where cattle were branded/marked before being set out to graze in open fields.
What was the open-range system?