Captains of Industry
This man brought the Bessemer Process to the US to become a major steel magnate.
Andrew Carnegie
This city was home to the most steel mill and coalmine workers.
Pittsburgh
Edison
Asian immigrants to the U.S. who settled in West Coast cities came through this immigration processing center.
Angel Island
These overcrowded, dirty living places often had no windows and no bathrooms.
Tenements
This was the name's of John D. Rockefeller billion-dollar company.
Standard Oil Company
An organization of workers that forms to improve working conditions, pay, and hours.
Labor Union
He invented over 200 products using agricultural goods, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes.
George Washington Carver
Most European immigrants who passed through Ellis Island came from these two geographic regions.
Southern and Eastern Europe
Thousands of southern farmers and new immigrants flocked to the cities seeking these.
Jobs
The act of buying out your competition in order to monopolize an industry.
Horizontal Integration
This work-stoppage tactic was and is used by workers to force management to give them a fair contract.
Strike
She created a women's beauty line to promote the health and beauty of black women in the United States.
Madame C.J Walker
These people who held anti-immigration views were generally second or third generation immigrants themselves.
Nativists
Leaders of the Social Gospel Movement, like Jane Addams, created these in order to help and Americanize new immigrants and their children in the major cities.
Settlement Houses
This financier dominated Wall Street investment and headed up what would become one of the largest banks in the U.S.
J.P Morgan
This theory was created to justify the terrible situations most American workers found themselves in, stating it was just society's natural selection.
Social Darwinism
Alexander Graham Bell had over 100 patents, including this communication device.
Telephone
Disease, famine, war, and religious persecution are all reasons people left their homelands for America, and are also known as this.
Push Factors
Boss Tweed was the head of one of these corrupt organizations, which exchange favors and solutions for money and votes.
Political Machines
This was the derogatory term used to describe the wealthiest businessmen who paid their workers close-to-nothing.
Robber Barons
This was (and still is) the country's largest labor organization, representing skilled and unskilled workers.
The American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Edwin Drake invented this machine which encouraged many Americans to try to get rich quick by striking "black gold," in Texas.
Steam Powered Oil Drill
This accord stopped Japanese immigration to the U.S in exchange for equal treatment of Japanese Americans already living in California.
Gentleman's Agreement
This refers to the practice of giving government jobs to people who helped you get elected, even if they are not qualified.
Patronage.