Industrialization
What is Industrialization?
Intelligent men who used technologies and inventions to create jobs and businesses
Who are Captains of Industry?
Land set aside for Native Americans
What is the Reservation System?
What led a population shift from rural to urban areas?
What is Industrialization?
A new form of housing in the city that housed many people and were often unsafe
What are Tenements?
Introduced the idea of mass production
Who is Henry Ford?
The growth of a large business is merely the survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
The Pacific Railway Act subsidized the building of this
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A hands off economy where business owners are free to make decisions about working conditions and wages
What is Laissez Faire Capitalism?
Where were immigrants settling in the United States?
What is Urban areas or the city?
Allowed for more production and economic growth
What is electricity or the light bulb?
Men who used ruthless methods to reach success, exploiting workers
Who are Robber Barons?
African Americans moving west to escape racism in the south
What are Exodusters?
Most were immigrants or in poverty and many families relied on them for extra income
What is Child Labor?
The belief that immigrants were intellectually inferior.
What is Nativism?
Made it illegal to form a monopoly or a trust?
What is the Sherman-Anti Trust Act?
In an attempt to force assimilation, the federal government outlawed the Ghost Dance, a sacred religious practice. When the Dakota Sioux continued the ritual the US army massacred 200 Indian men, women, and children at this so-called battle.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Organizations of workers fighting for better to working conditions
What are Labor Unions
A monopoly that involves multiple businesses that agree to combine forces and resources to control an industry.
What is a Trust?
Court Case that made segregation legal in the South
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson