Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is an Immigrant?
The transportation system that connected the East coast to the West coast.
What are Railroads?
The government is hands off of the economy.
What is Laissez Faire?
Strike that involved workers in a "company town" who's rent was raised.
What is the assimilation?
Buildings that were built upward instead of sideways. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
Owner of Standard Oil company
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
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- When a company purchases a competing company that offers the same product or service
- When a company purchases another company that does the process of manufacturing before or after them
What are Horizontal & Vertical Alignment?
Strike over railroad workers getting their wages cut three times, they blocked the railroads to protest.
What is the Great Strike of 1877?
The places immigrants worked in & suffered from poor working conditions, long hours and bad pay.
What are Factories?
Process that allowed America to create steel faster & stronger. Allowed America to create more railroads & skyscrapers.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Owner of American railroad & shipping companies.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
When several smaller companies have control over the entire supply of a product or service.
What is a trust?
As factories started to expand and hire more workers, these organizations formed to get workers higher wages & safer working conditions by going on strikes.
What are labor unions?
Most famous of Industrial Age strikes, involved a bomb being thrown into a crowd of protestors. This strike gave us Labor Day.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Political boss who bribed immigrants with jobs & housing.
Who is Boss Tweed?
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
Author of the "Gospel Of Wealth" & owner of steel company.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Strike involving Andrew Carnegie's steel company, skilled workers wages were slashed due to the hiring of unskilled immigrants.
What is the Homestead Strike?