Growth of Railroads
This term refers to the time zones across the continental United States.
What is standard time?
This type of capitalism allowed buisnesses to act without much regulation from the government.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
Most immigrants from Europe came to the United States and were processed via this island.
What is Ellis Island?
This term refers to the shift of industry and populations from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
This term was used by the Supreme Court when it rulled in favor of segregation in the case Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is "seperate but equal"?
Factories that provided workers with long hours, low wages, and poor working conditions.
What are sweatshops?
Immigrants from this country helped build raillroad tracks through the mountain ranges of the western United States.
What is China?
This industrialist was know for quickly and cheaply producing steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Quickly constructed aparmtent buildings used to house immigrants and the poor.
What are tenements?
The areas on the outside of cities made up of mostly residential housing.
What are suburbs?
These southern laws were used to strip away right from African Amercans.
What are Jim Crow laws?
People who were willing to cross union lines to work during a strike.
What are scabs?
This railroad ran across the United States, connecting the west coast to the midwest and beyond.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This industrialist was known for his refining of oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The category of work usually done by immigrants. (I will accept many answers)
What is industrial work? / What is manual labor? / What are blue collar jobs?
The corrupt power structures of urban cities that often controlled and funded the local government.
What are political machines?
W.E.B. Dubois and Ida B. Wells founded this organization to promte the rights of African Americans.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
What is anarchy?
Starting in Sacramento, California, this company began building railroad tracks east towards Utah.
What is the Central Pacific Company?
This industrialist was know for his railroads, specifically the ones that connected Chicago to New York.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The term for people who flee to another country to escape persecution.
What are refugees?
This movement, promoted by Protestant ministers, advocated for the ending of child labor, restricting work on Sundays, and providing care for injured workers.
What is the Social Gospel?
This law prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the United States for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The term for the cost of doing buisness.
What is overhead?
Starting in Omaha, Nebraska, this company began building railroad tracks west towards Utah.
What is the Union Pacific Company?
This techinque revolutionized steel production, making it cheaper and faster to produce.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Most immigrants from Asia came to the United States and were processed via this island.
What is Angel Island?
The Hull House in Chicago was an example of this type of orginiaztion that provided assitance to poor and immigrant residents.
What are settlement houses?
This African American leader founded the Tuskegee Institute and believed in the idea of self-reliance for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The term for when people who work similar jobs come together to unite as a group to demand improved working conditions.
What is collective bargaining? (What is a strike?)