The Rich and Famous
A Central Pacific railroad investor who became wealthy from his investments. Founder of a prominent private University in California in a city of the same name.
Who is Leland Stanford?
Due to the efficient production of high quality steel and the invention of the elevator, these tall buildings became popular in cities, due to their efficient use of space.
What are skysrapers?
An organization owned by many people that is treated by the law as it if it were a single person/entity.
What is corporation?
This invention, credited to Alexander Graham Bell allowed for long-distance audio communication.
What is the telephone?
What is a "blacklist?"
This Scottish Born immigrant became one of the wealthiest men America due to his investments in the steel industry. Later founded a University in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania which was the heart of his steel industry.
This term refers to getting money through dishonest or questionable means, a common occurence in governments, indutries, and cities.
What is graft?
When a single company controls an entire market, they have this (also a popular boardgame).
What is a monopoly?
The most famous inventor of the time period, credited with invention the incandescent light bulb and the phonograph.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Many of the crowded, small apartments that many immigrants and other working class people were living in in the late 1800s were in this shape so that landlords could maximize as much space as possible.
What is dumbbell?
This term was given to people who loot an industry and give nothing back. This was especially used to describe those who work in the railroad industry.
What is Robber Baron?
These were dark, crowded, and poorly lit rooms that housed multiple families in cities, commonly occupied by poor immigrants
What are tenements?
Companies would enter one of these in order to maintain prices at a certain level, although they weren't enforceable by law and typically didn't last long.
What is a pool?
This company is credited with producing and selling the first camera, which was sold for 25 dollars, revolutionizing photography.
Ellis's Island's counterpart in the West, located in California.
What is Angel Island?
The Founder of Standard Oil Company which controlled over 90% of the oil industry in the United States by the late 1880s. Developed a 900 million dollar center in New York City after his name.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
These informal groups designed to gain and keep power were ran by party bosses, who serviced the need of poor community members in exchange for votes.
What are political machines?
What is a trust?
This type of car was used in 20 cities, most notably in San Francisco, replacing the slower and less efficient horsecar.
What is the cable car?
An idea that came about at the turn of the 20th century that society only progresses because the strongest people in society make it better aka "survival of the fittest."
What is Social Darwinism?
This corrupt entrepreneur used information he received as a railroad owner to manipulate stock prices for his benefit, a process which is known as insider trading.
This famous New York political machine was run by William H. Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
This type of company doesn't actually produce goods, but rather owns the stock of various companies that do produce goods, thereby merging these companies into one legal entity.
What is a holding company?
The Wright brothers were credited with discovering the science of flight in this North Carolina city.
What is Kitty Hawk?
Lasseiz-faire (minimal government intervention), private ownership, and competition encourages this type of economic model.