Industrialization
He dominated the steel industry using vertical integration.
Andrew Carnegie
This union, led by Terence Powderly, welcomed skilled and unskilled workers.
Knights of Labor
This 1862 act gave settlers 160 acres of land if they improved it.
Homestead Act
Mark Twain coined this term to describe the era’s glittering wealth and underlying problems.
The Gilded Age
Immigrants on the East Coast were processed at this facility.
Ellis Island
The business strategy involves buying out competitors in the same industry
Horizontal integration
This 1886 event turned violent and damaged the labor movement’s reputation.
Haymarket Affair
This 1887 law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal land.
Dawes Act
These wealthy industrialists were sometimes called “captains of industry” or “robber barons.”
Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc.
Immigrants on the West Coast were processed here under harsher conditions.
Angel Island
John D. Rockefeller used this type of business organization to control the oil industry
Trusts
This 1892 strike at Carnegie Steel became violent when Pinkertons were brought in
Homestead Strike
This 1890 event marked the end of armed Native American resistance.
Wounded Knee Massacre
This philosophy encouraged philanthropy among the wealthy.
Gospel of Wealth
These crowded, unsafe apartment buildings housed many urban poor.
Tenements
This term describes the belief that the wealthy were destined to succeed due to natural superiority
Social Darwinism
This 1894 strike against a railroad car company disrupted national rail traffic.
Pullman Strike
This railroad completed in 1869 connected the East and West coasts.
Transcontinental Railroad
This movement sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems.
Social Gospel
This journalist exposed tenement conditions in How the Other Half Lives.
Jacob Riis
This 1890 law attempted to limit monopolies but was weakly enforced at first.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Samuel Gompers founded this union focused on skilled workers and bread‑and‑butter issues.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This historian argued that the frontier shaped American democracy.
Frederick Jackson Turner (Frontier Thesis)
This political cartoonist exposed corruption, especially Boss Tweed.
Thomas Nast
Political machines like this one controlled city politics in New York.
Tammany Hall