Inventors/ Inventions
This inventor is known for improving the incandescent light bulb and creating an electric power system.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This businessman controlled Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Organizations formed by workers to improve wages and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This immigration station processed millions of immigrants arriving in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
This railroad connected the eastern and western United States when it was completed in 1869
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The telephone allowed voices to be transmitted over long distances, who invented it?
Who is Alexander Bell?
They wrote the book "The Gospel of Wealth."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
These are two things that labor unions fought for.
Higher Wages
Better Working Conditions
8 Hour Workdays
Asian immigrants were processed through this immigration station in California.
What is Angel Island?
Many of these immigrants worked for the Central Pacific Railroad, helping build tracks through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Who were Chinese immigrants?
This person tapped into the market for African American hair products! Became the first African American millionaire
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
What is an anti-trust law?
This strike took place in Pennsylvania at the Carnegie Steel plant.
What is the Homestead Strike?
Overcrowded apartment buildings where many immigrants lived. Jacob Riis wrote the book "How the Other Half Lives" about these buildings and their deplorable living conditions for the poor in cities.
What are tenements?
Abraham Lincoln signed this into law in 1862, in the middle of the Civil War, to incentivize railroads to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This process made steel cheaper and faster to produce
What is the Bessemer Process?
When a company controls every stage of production, it is called this.
What is Verticle Integration?
This labor group accepted skilled and unskilled workers. Inclusive: Allowed for women and African Americans to join.
Disbanded as a result of the Haymarket Riot/ Bombing.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Region from which NEW immigrants were coming between the 1880s and 1910.
What is South or Eastern Europe?
Farmers and small business owners complained that railroad companies charged unfairly high prices. This led Congress to pass this law, the first federal attempt to regulate the railroad industry.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This person developed the alternating current (AC) system to distribute electricity over long distances using transformers and generators.
Who is George Westinghouse?
JP Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie. He used this financial-business entity to monopolize steel without owning a steel company.
What is a Holding Company?
He was the leader of the American Railroad Union (ARU), was arrested as a result of the Pullman Strike, and eventually ran for president.
Who is Eugene Debs?
Name the law that banned an entire group of people from immigrating into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882?
One of the two railroad companies that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, to complete the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads?