The West
Beef, Timber, Silver, and Gold
Farmers’ crops were worth ____ at harvest time than at planting time
less
____ _____ generated wealth in staggering concentrations and made a few men richer than anyone could have imagined
Big Businesses
How did most of those immigrating to the United States travel by 1900
In steamboats.
1873 and 1893 were years remembered primarily as the beginnings of two disastrous ________ ________
"Economic Panics or Disasters"
By 1890, the U.S. Census reported what?
That the frontier had been filled
manufacturers _______ production to maintain profit levels only to see their prices fall
increased
An American industrialist and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Henry Ford
Western mining camps brought together all of the following groups, except:
A) Australians.
B) Chinese.
C) Mexicans.
D) African Americans
Africans Americans
An Italian immigrant, her story is that of many immigrants. She arrived poor, but although she found no streets paved with gold, she made a living for herself and her children. Her story illustrates a larger migration process during the time period, set in motion by global needs and new aspirations.
Rosa Cassettari
As the frontier faded, so did this animal in the west.
Buffalo
Riot and Bombing that occured on May 4th 1886 as a result of labor treatment in the U.S.
Haymarket Square
a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort
The Bessemer Process
What precipitated the massive immigration of European Jews to America?
Anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia following the assassination of Czar Alexander II.
Society was stratified by class, race, ethnicity and gender somewhat attributed to this ideology created by Charles Darwin.
Social Darwinism
This man arrived penniless in the mining fields and ended up wealthy and powerful. The successes of men like this led to the mining fever of those who went west hoping to strike it rich.
Marcus Daly
An American labor federation active in the late 19th century, especially the 1880s
The Knights of Labor
Pioneered the transition from iron to steel using the Bessemer process. This person also proved himself a master of the railroad industry, a brilliant bureaucratic manager, and a shrewd financial manipulator.
Andrew Carnegie
When did the modern “downtown” for shopping and business offices develop in cities?
In the middle of the nineteenth century.
In 1865 the U.S. was 4th in industrial output but by 1898 it was ___.
First.
Farmers in the west took land from _____ and ______.
Hispanic Ranchers and Native Americans.
This is the first national labor federation in the United States. Founded in 1866 and dissolved in 1873, it paved the way for other organizations, such as the Knights of Labor and the AFL
National Labor Union
founder of the modern investment company
J.P. Morgan
Who published an expose of slums and other urban problems titled How the Other Half Lives in 1890?
Jacob Riis.
This technological invention was created in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.
Telephone