Important People
Invented the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Federal law enacted in 1890 that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade
Sherman Antitrust Act
Government does not interfere with the economy.
Laissez-faire (Hands off)
Movement of people from rural areas to cities.
Urbanization
Granted Women's Suffrage (right to vote) by removing gender as a barrier to voting
19th Amendment
The "Captain of Industry" who was known for his philanthropy by donating to libraries and Universities. His business had a monopoly on the Steel Industry of the United States.
Andrew Carnegie
1887 law which gave all Native American males 160 acres to farm and also set up schools to make Native American children more like other Americans
Dawes Act
Poorly built and overcrowded housing where many immigrants and inner city people lived in the late 19th century.
Tenement Housing
Forced assimilation of Native Americans into white American culture
Americanization
Reversed the decision of the 18th Amendment that established prohibition (banning sale/distribution/manufacturing of alcohol in the US)
21st Amendment
The undisputed leader of the political machine that ran the streets of New York City, Tammany Hall. He had NYC under his thumb.
William "Boss" Tweed
1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
Chinese Exclusion Act
Popular in big cities, these groups ran corrupt governments. They would target immigrants and the poor to gain their votes in exchange for housing, a guaranteed job, protection, or money.
Political Machines
The completion of this project connected the west and east coasts of the continental United States for the first time.
Transcontinental Railroad
Limited the number of terms a president can be elected into office to 2 terms (8 years).
22nd Amendment
The owner of "Standard Oil Co.", the largest oil monopoly in the United States, he was the richest man in American History, and his company owned 94% of the country's oil supply.
J.D. Rockefeller
1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
Homestead Act
Organized groups of workers that would band together to advocate for better working rights, better pay, and other benefits. Their main strategies for getting their point across were strikes and boycotts.
Labor Unions
The process by which an economy is transformed from a primarily agricultural one to one based on the manufacturing of goods.
Allowed for the direct election of Senators by the American people
17th Amendment
Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
1887 law passed to regulate railroad and other interstate businesses
Interstate Commerce Act
The idea of favoring native-born people over immigrant people
Nativism
a frenzy of immigration to the west for prospecting, along the Klondike River near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada after gold was discovered there in the late 19th century.
Klondike Gold Rush
Lowered the Voting Age from 21 to 18
26th Amendment