Captain's of Industry
American industrialist, owner of Standard Oil Company, he dominated the oil industry with his aggressive business practices
John D. Rockefeller
Exclusive control by one company over an entire industry
Monopoly
Process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions
Collective Bargaining
Movement of people from rural areas to cities, farms to factories
Urbanization
Immigrant processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910
Angel Island
Scottish-born American industrialist who owned Carnegie Steel, dominated the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Method developed in the mid-nineteenth century for making steel more efficiently
Bessemer Process
Labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms
Knights of Labor
Multistory buildings divided into apartments to house as many residents as possible
Tenements
An island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States
Ellis Island
Who practiced vertical integration?
Andrew Carnegie
The absence of government control over personal and economic life
Laissez-faire
Labor union that organized skilled workers in a specific trade and made specific demands rather than seeking broad changes
American Federation of Labor
Housing communities owned by businesses and rented out to workers.
Company Homes
Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture
Melting Pot
Who practiced horizontal integration?
John D. Rockefeller
The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle
Social Darwinism
1892 strike against Carnegie's steelworks in Homestead, Pennsylvania
Homestead Strike
Main three things workers suffered from during this time period because of big business?
Low wages, long hours, dangerous conditions
Term used to describe a time of both tremendous wealth and poverty in the late 1800's
Glided Age
Known for his Model-T and usage of assembly and mass production.
Henry Ford
1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce
Sherman Antitrust Act
1886 labor-related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence
Haymarket Riot
Three problems of urbanization?
Sickness/Disease, Pollution, Crime, Mass Poverty, Overcrowding
Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens
Americanization