Second Industrial Revolution
Improved upon making the light bulb making it last longer, cheaper to use
Thomas Edison
The places that Native Americans were sequestered on
What are Reservations
What is a trust?
a combination of companies to gain control of an industry and reduce competition.
He was the founder of the NAACP?
Who is WEB DuBois.
This was the place that processed immigrants in New York.
What was Ellis Island.
Invented the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Who took pictures of the poor and showed what living conditions were like for them?
Jacob Riis
He is known as the father of Modern-Day Florida.
Who is Henry Flagler
This was the place that processed Asian immigrants in
California.
What was Angel Island
What is a scab?
replacement workers not part of the striking union
Which business tycoon took advantage of vertical integration
Andrew Carnegie
These were laws aimed at keeping the races segregated in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws
This is the name for placing a limit on the number of immigrants allowed into the US?
What are Quotas.
companies that control all aspects of production for certain products. This usually drives out competition, allows prices to rise, and is not good for the consumer
What is monoply
He was the founder of the AFL?
Who is Samuel Gompers.
First group to organize unskilled workers
What is Knights of Labor
List 3 ways “Big Business” fought back against labor unions
Lockouts, scabs and blacklists
This is the type of slum housing that immigrants lived in.
What were Tenements
The "New Colossus"
What is the Statue of Liberty
What was the first labor union
Knights of Labor
Who was the consolidator of railroads
Cornelius Vanderbilt
These people were discriminated against for a variety of reasons and one of the main ones is that they took baths everyday.
Who were the Chinese.
People who favored native born Americans over immigrants.
What were nativists.
In 1882, this became the law to prevent Chinese immigration.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act.