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The resource that first powered trains.
What is Coal?
The new type of organization created by JD Rockefeller to let him buy out rival oil companies.
What was a trust?
Where did the new wave of immigrants (starting in 1870) mainly come from?
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
What is Steel?
The organization workers can form to bargain collectively for things they want.
What is a Union?
The inventor whose team brought light bulbs and electricity to America.
Who was Thomas Edison?
The philosophy that applied the theory of evolution to American society.
What was Social Darwinism?
The act of congress which banned Chinese immigration to the US.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The disease, spread by contaminated water, that killed many people in America's growing cities.`
Workers demanded that the workday be reduced from 12 or sometimes even 16 hours to _______
What is 8 hours?
The government policy of non-intervention in the economy.
What is Laissez-Faire?
The term for when companies that should be competing work together to fix prices and control markets.
What is a cartel?
The name for the idea that European migrants in the US blended together to create a single culture.
What was the 'melting pot?'
The first city in the US to create a subway.
What is Boston?
The oil tycoon whose trust came to control virtually all oil production in the United States.
John D. Rockefeller
The leg(s) of the 'three legged stool' of industry (natural resources, skilled labor, capital) that the South lacked.
What are skilled labor and capital?
The act of congress that tried to stop big business from crushing competition.
The Sherman Antitrust Act.
The center for processing immigrants arriving in San Francisco, where Chinese immigrants were often held for long periods of time.
The low cost, multi-family, often poorly built and low quality housing that many workers lived in.
What were tenements.
The author of the book 'The Jungle,' which revealed the horrible working conditions in meatpacking to Americans, including that meatpackers were often falling into the lard vats and becoming part of the lard.
The invention that allowed the mass production of steel.
What was the Bessemer process?
The process by which big businessmen buy out companies at all stages of the manufacture of their goods.
What is vertical integration?
The volunteer institutions that attempted to 'americanize' new immigrants.
What were Settlement Houses?
An inventor who created a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if their cable snaps.
Who was Elisha Otis?
The main demand of the Populist Party, and the subject of William Jennings Bryan's 'Cross of Gold' speech.
What was bimetalism/ending the gold standard/coinage of free silver?