Westward Expansion
Triumph of Industry
Labor
Cities & Immigrants
100

the transportation method that created an national market

What is the transcontinental railroad?

100

the name of TWO robber barons we discussed in class

What is J.P Morgan / Cornelius Vanderbilt / John Rockefeller / Andrew Carnegie?
100
TWO problems faced by workers in the new industrial age

What is impersonal conditions / long hours / boring, repetitive tasks / low wages / dangerous conditions / child labor / periodic unemployment / lack of opportunity for advancement / unpleasant living conditions?

100

TWO problems faced in new cities

What is lack of hospitals, police forces, public schools, fire departments, street cleaning and garbage collection?

200

a system that forced Native Americans onto government owned land

What are reservations?

200

The process of pouring a hot pig iron into the mouth of a converter and blowing air through the sides to burn impurities off the top

What is the Bessemer Process?

200
these people included all workers, were associated with the bombing of a Chicago police officer, fought for an 8-hour workday, higher wages and safety codes in factories. They eventually disbanded

What are the Knights of Labor?

200

the type of communities most immigrants would live in and the type of housing they lived in

What are ghettos and tenemants?

300
this act promised settled 160 acres of land either for $1.65 an acre or free depending how long they stayed to farm the land

What is the homestead act?

300

the process of buying all stages of production to increase control over an industry

the process of buying all related competition in your industry and remain the only one standing

What is vertical integration?

What is horizontal integration?

300

these people included only skilled male, white laborers, were led by Samuel Gompers and pushed forward a "closed shop" policy

What is The American Federation of Labor?

300

an organization controlled by a strong leader or boss that gets citizens to vote for its candidates

What is a political machine?

400

This act was meant to Americanize Native Americans by creating head of household ownership instead of community ownership

What is the Dawes Act?

400
the act passed to eliminate/reduce unfair practices by railroads and the case that caused its creation

What is the Interstate Commerce Act and Wabash vs. Illinois?

400
THREE weapons at the disposal of employers against employees
What is strike-breakers (scabs) / lockouts / hire new employees / yellow dog contracts / blacklisting / pinkertons / injunctions?
400
the political machine and ward boss in New York

What is Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed?

500

this movement formed in response to the issues facing farmers nationwide

What is the Grange Movement?

500
this concept raises prices at any time to earn excessive profits, faces no competition and hurts consumers the most

What is a monopoly?

500

the name of the three big events in labor and their outcome

What is the Haymarket Riot - hung people accussed / associated with knights of labor


What is the Homestead strike - members blacklisted / union collapsed


What is the Pullman Strike - destroyed American Railway union / Eugene Debs sent to jail

500

the act that limited migration of Chinese immigrants to the United States

the act that limited migration of immigrants with the exception of wives and children to the United States

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen's Agreement?

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