Industrial Growth
This process revolutionized steel production in the late 1800s.
What is the Bessemer process?
John D. Rockefeller used this form of integration to consolidate oil companies.
What is horizontal integration?
Workers trapped in company debt were said to live in this kind of “slavery.”
What is wage slavery?
Most “new immigrants” entered the U.S. through this New York harbor processing center.
What is Ellis Island?
Mark Twain used this term to describe American society’s glittering surface and rotten core.
What is the Gilded Age?
Entrepreneurs benefited from this hands-off government policy.
What is laissez-faire?
Andrew Carnegie used this type of integration to control every step of production.
What is vertical integration?
This early labor union welcomed all workers and sought broad reforms.
What is the Knights of Labor?
The Americanization movement encouraged immigrants to do this.
What is assimilate into American culture?
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst transformed this industry.
What is the newspaper industry?
This inventor created innovations powered by electricity, including the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This law was the first major attempt by the U.S. government to regulate monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Samuel Gompers founded this labor union focused on wages and working conditions.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Overcrowded apartment housing for immigrants in cities was known as this.
What are tenements?
This cultural phenomenon meant Americans began sharing similar consumer experiences nationwide.
What is mass culture?
One major reason the South lagged behind the North industrially was lack of these two key elements.
What are natural resources and capital investment?
The idea that the wealthy were “fit” to survive and thrive in business was called this.
What is Social Darwinism?
A common feature of major strikes between 1877–1894 was this government response.
What is the use of federal troops?
Preventing cholera outbreaks in cities required improving this public resource.
What is clean water supply?
New entertainment in the late 1800s included vaudeville, sports, and these amusement areas.
What are amusement parks?
Railroads helped standardize this system, dividing the country into four regions.
What are time zones?
This federal agency was created in 1887 to regulate railroad rates and practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?
This violent 1886 labor protest in Chicago damaged the reputation of unions.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This famous city planner designed New York’s Central Park and promoted public green spaces.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
This author became famous for “rags-to-riches” stories promoting success through hard work.
Who is Horatio Alger?