People
Name for a person who gives away wealth to benefit society and an example
Philanthropist
Many people came HERE in search of gold in the mid 1800s
California
Banned the Chinese from entering the US
Chinese Exclusion Act
to be 'hands off' business
laissez-faire
The two immigration states and their location
Ellis Island: NY
Angel Island: SF
This group wanted laws passed to stop the number of immigrants coming into the United States
nativists
Run down and overcrowded apartment buildings
tenements
Unions led strikes for these THREE main goals
better hours
better conditions
better wages
Ford used the ________ ______ to great efficiency as each worker did a single task.
Assembly Line
name for the cramped place on a steamship
steerage
Group that supported the increase in the money supply and a state regulation of the railroads
This strike, marked by violence, took place in Pittsburgh at Carnegie's steel plant
Homestead Strike
Broke up tribal land and gave to individual families
Dawes Act
This led to steel being able to be more stronger and more efficiently made
Bessemer Process
only the strongest business will survive under this theory
social Darwinism
Oil tycoon who was one of the richest Americans of all time
JD Rockefeller
Name for the trail in which cowboys brought their cattle from Texas to Kansas
Chisholm
Encouraged settlement of the west by giving 160 acres for a small fee
Homestead Act
Monopoly strategy that joins firms from the SAME industry
horiztontal integration
Haymarket Affair
Who were the 'exodusters'?
Black Americans leaving the South going to the west
Name of the indigenous boarding school we discussed that was used to assimilate native youth
Carlisle
(Carlisle Indian Industrial School)
Law used against labor unions but originally made to break up monopolies
Sherman Antitrust Act
This union advocated for public ownership of the means of production
International Workers of the World (Wobblies)
This immigrant group faced criticism from nativists in Massachusetts because they did not want to assimilate
French Canadians