Immigration
What many folks would call a a person who came to the U.S. after 1880, Normally no skill and poor.
New Immigrant
A time period from late 1870s to the late 1890.
Gilded Age
The person who made the light bulb.
Thomas Edison
Something that connects the west and the east. many immigrants worked on this, very bad working conditions.
Transcontinental Railroad
Started by cutting workers wages and by the company owner bringing in armed troops.
Homestead Strike
A place where many immigrants enter the United states, the process to get into the United States could be weeks or months long.
Ellis Island
a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access.
Tenements
Founded the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
A novel by Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business
The Jungle
Wide spread railroad strike and boycott that disrupted rail traffic in the US Midwest in 1894. (very basic 40 year old man name)
Pullman Strike
Certain reasons for immigrants to either stay or leave their own home.
Push and Pull Factors
A group of people who wanted to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications.
Muckrakers
Had the biggest steal company.
Andrew Carnegie
Organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants
Settlement Houses
Prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace. It outlaws any contract, conspiracy, or combination of business interests in restraint of foreign or interstate trade.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Programs that would be offered to new Immigrants, This program helped them learn the American way.
Americanization
A person or group of people who want to control company's and sometimes even control the government.
Monopoly
A feminist who advocated for social reform and woman's rights.
Jane Addams
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices, originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century.
Robber baron
This act helped to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
Meat inspection Act
This act did not allow immigration for Chinese laborers, gave them very little rights.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This term was caused by anti-immigration sentiment.
Nativist
This person helped with the hygiene in tenements.
Jacob Riis
convicted for stealing an amount estimated by an aldermen's committee in 1877 at between $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers from political corruption, but later estimates ranged as high as $200 million
Boss Tweed
protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works.
Haymarket Strike