Entrepreneurs
Born in Scotland, Started off working as a clerk for the railroad. He entered the Steel Business in 1873. This Entrepreneur believed in Social Darwinism.
What is, Andrew Carnegie
This United States federal law was designed to regulate the railroad industry particularly the monopolistic. It required that railroads publicize shipping rates. Required that railroad rates be reasonable and just.
The Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Define Nativism
The desire of immigrants to keep their culture
Was one of the first social settlements in North America. Founded in Chicago in 1889
What is Jane Addams and Hull House
What was the purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?
The transcontinental railroad opened new markets in the West and brought farm products from the West back East.
Banker and Financier on Wall street, Born in Connecticut and would eventually co-found a major Banking Firm. 1880s he established himself as a power in the Railroad industry.
What is J.P. Morgan
President Roosevelt made the decision to take them to the task. He and his advisers believed that the Northern Securities Holding Company had formed a monopoly and was in violation of the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act.
The Northern Securities Case. (1904)
What were some of the "Push Factors"
Tenet housing, Social services, Sewers, Goverment.
Published articles on the topics including “What Every Girl Should Know”. founder of the birth control movement in the United States.
What is Margaret Sanger and Birth Controll
The government does not get involved in the economy. A “hands-off” approach
Laissez Faire
Born in Richford New York, first occupation would be as a bookkeeper. Organized trusts to combine companies, reduce competition, and increase profits. Owner of Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller
Named after a U.S senator, was the first federal legislation to make anticompetitive commercial; practices illegal. Makes illegal all attempts to monopolize any part of trade or commerce in the united state
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Why did many immigrants come to the U.S. in the late 1800s
Famine in other countires
Fleeing crop failure
come to the land of opportunity
Job Shortages.
After three of her friends were lynched by a mob, she gave up teaching and began a journalism career. one of the founders of the NCAAP.
Ida B. Wells
An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production. There is a free market to buy and sell goods.
Capitalism
In 1829 he started his own steamship company, Would eventually gain control of the Hudson River. Then would turn his attention over the railroads buying stocks then eventually owning railroads within New York.
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt
In 1886 the U.S Supreme Court decided that states could not regulate commerce. They believed this went beyond their boundaries.
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R.R. V. Illinois 1886
1882- Congress stopped Chinese immigration for 20 years, except students, teachers, tourists, and government officials.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act.
His work would bring attention to the Chicago packing house. He would cover a labour strike and write a novel on it. His work forced reform within meat packing industrys.
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle and Meat Inspection.
This theory of evolution was used in business practices, it believes in natural selection and survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism
What is both Verticle Integration and Horizontal Intergration
What is controlling all steps of production and what is merging with companies that make similar products.
What were the effects of the Northern Securities Case?
Newspapers hailed President Roosevelt as a "trustbuster". This would also result in an increase in popularity.
The decision was seen as a victory by the Progressives and the opponents of Social Darwinism
Each European nation was given a quota of 2% of the # that was here in 1890 could come.
Immigrant Act of 1924
Born a slave, wanted an education but was to poor to afford one. earned his education by taking a job as a janitor. Would have many ideas about African Americans, believed that if they became respectable citizens that's how they would earn the respects of the "whites".
What is Booker T. Washington
With industrialization came the need for more workers. To improve working conditions, increasing numbers of American workers formed. Used collective bargaining to achieve their goals protests boycotts.
Labor Unions