Industrialization
What is timber, coal, iron, copper, Petroleum
What are natural resources?
Same RR width across all networks.
What is Standard Gauge?
People who risk capital in organizing and running a business, America was enticing to them.
What is are Entrepreneurs?
Amount of immigrants to the US between 1865 and 1914.
What is 25 million?
Term coined by Mark Twain and Charles Warner.
What is the Gilded Age?
The US population triples during
What is 1860-1910?
Increased predictability and efficiency of RRs, everyone adopted the practice.
What are Time Zones?
Others thought big business was most efficient just needed price controls in their monopolies
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
Opens 1892; processing center for 12 million Euro immigrants
What is Ellis Island
Exchanged votes from working class for money and jobs.
What are Political machines?
Chartered Union Pacific and Central Pacific to complete project
What is 1862 Pacific Railway Act?
They had a great wealth acquired led to accusations of bribery, insider trading, and swindling, misappropriations.
What are Robber Barons?
He believed large companies helped people, but should not be without regulation to prevent market trust.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Processing center for immigrants in San Francisco bay, 1910
What is Angel Island?
Jacob Riis was the author of the book...
What is How the Other Half Lives?
Many investors in one company to spread out risk
What are Corporations?
Firm or person managing another company.
What is Trusts?
Strict interpretation - federal government cannot intervene unless the business is operating in multiple states, not just sold in multiple states
What is the Interstate Commerce Clause?
Hostility toward immigrants, extreme dislike by native born citizens
What is Nativisim?
The American Dream
What is Individualism?
Laissez faire lowered prices, but also led to integration.
What is Consolidation?
Brought quickness of business and efficiency of communication.
What is Electricity?
Un American perception of Unions
What is a Marxist?
Bans 10 years of new immigrants, bars citizenship, authority to reject disabled and criminals.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Hastily built and crowded apartment in large citie. Multiple families housed in one unit, little ventilation, lacked windows, no indoor plumbing
What is life in tenements?