Robber Baron vs. Captain of Industry
Business leader who led to the rise of business and contributed their wealth positively in some way
Captain of Industry
The process of moving from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing one is known as:
Industrialization
What region of the United States saw the most immigration?
Northeast
Small railroad style apartments with no windows
Tenements
Term - when a company or corporation controls an entire market
Monopoly
Person who built their wealth in railroads and shipping
Vanderbilt
True or False: Governments sided with workers during the Gilded Age
False
True or False: Immigration in the United States tended to increase during times of prosperity
True
List 2 problems of urbanization
Sanitation
Living conditions
Tenements
Fire
Crime
List 3 Push Factors of immigration
pogroms
famine
religious executions/discrimination
war
Person who had a monopoly on the oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
Governments "hands off" policy towards big business was called
laissez-faire
This act limited Chinese laborers from entering the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
Factory fire that led to changes in workplace safety
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
These workers were hired to replace workers on strike
Scabs (replacement workers)
Person who had a Monopoly on steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
List 2 tactics used by big business to limit the power of labor unions
Lockouts
Scab Workers
Blacklists
Yellow Dog contracts
People who were against immigrations and favored native-born people were called
Nativists
Name of the famous Democrat political boss who ran NYC
Boss Tweed
List the 3 labor unions that came about due to the mistreatment of workers
IWW, Knights of Labor, AFL
Business Practices included the assembly line
Also gave workers shorter breaks
Henry Ford
What were 2 pieces of legislation to control business practices that limited competition
Sherman Antitrust Act
Interstate Commerce Act
"New" immigrants came into the US after what year?
1880
Name of Boss Tweed's political machine
Tammany Hall
The immense wealth accumulated by industrialists like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan was seen as evidence of this ideology
(Hint: survival of the fittest)
Social Darwinism