Robber Barons or Captains of Industry
This man built his fortune in steel and wrote about the “Gospel of Wealth.”
Who is Andrew Carnegie
Most immigrants from Europe entered through this New York harbor station.
What is Ellis Island?
This 1892 strike at Carnegie Steel turned violent when private guards clashed with workers.
What is the Homestead Strike?
He invented the incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This 1862 law gave settlers free land in the West if they agreed to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
Known for oil, he was accused of ruthless tactics
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Immigrants from Asia were processed at this station on the West Coast.
What is Angel Island?
In 1894, this strike at a railroad car company disrupted mail delivery and led to federal troops being called in.
What is the Pullman Strike?
The telephone was invented by this man in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
These were designed to keep Black Americans from voting in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Poll Taxes or Literacy Tests?
This financier helped stabilize the U.S. economy during crises and built a famous library. Bought Carnegie Steel for 25 Billion.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Fear of immigrants taking jobs led to this 1882 law restricting Chinese laborers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
An 1886 labor rally in Chicago turned deadly, linking unions with anarchists.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
His process made steel production faster and cheaper.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
This system kept many freedmen trapped in cycles of poverty, farming land they didn’t own.
What is Sharecropping?
The term used to describe business leaders who gave back through philanthropy.
What are Captains of Industry?
Push or Pull? Famine in Ireland drove many to the United States.
What is a Push Factor?
This type of contract forced workers to promise not to join a union.
What is a Yellow Dog Contract?
This economic theory argued that businesses worked best when the government did not interfere in the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
This term describes laws enforcing racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Critics used this phrase to accuse industrialists of exploiting workers and crushing competition.
What are Robber Barons?
The process of teaching immigrants American culture, language, and customs.
What is Americanization?
This labor leader helped found the American Railway Union and later embraced socialism.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
By controlling every step of production from raw materials to finished product, Carnegie practiced this business strategy.
What is vertical integration?
These three Constitutional amendments abolished slavery, granted citizenship, and secured voting rights for Black men.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?