Industrialization
What new technology helped the spread of Industrialization during 1865-1900? (give an example)
What are railroads, steamboats, telephones, typewriter or electricity?
Name an example of a robber baron from the Gilden Age.
Who was Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller or JP Morgan?
The19th-century belief that it was a God given right for Americans to expand westwards across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
An act which strictly banned the immigration of a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
This workers organization pushed to unite all workers and fight for better pay, shorter hours and the abolition of child labor.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Introduced to the US in the 1860s, this top-producing material allowed for stronger, lighter rails that replaced iron, enabling faster and heavier locomotives
What is steel?
A business strategy where a company gains control over multiple stages of its supply chain.
What is Vertical Integration?
What large event happened in the West that caused a surge of Americans migrating to the West?
What is the Gold Rush?
This massive demand for low-wage, unskilled labor caused an influx of immigrants to come the US from Europe and Asia.
What is the Industrial Labor Demand?
This event was organized by railway workers and disrupted by federal troops, setting a precedent for government intervention in favor of businesses.
What is the Pullman strike?
This law passed in 1890 aimed to protect American manufacturing from foreign competition, was supported by Republican protectionists but widely opposed by farmers and democrats.
What was the McKinley Tariff?
A NYC political machine that exploited immigrants for votes to sustain political corruption.
What is Tammany Hall?
An agreement that led to a large event that allowed Americans to expand westward.
What is the end of the Mexican American War or Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
What was the difference between Ellis Island and Angel Island?
Angel Island processed immigrants from Asia, had long interrogations and harsh living conditions. Ellis Island processed mostly European immigrants, who were allowed into the country a lot faster.
A violent failed labor dispute where workers seized control of Andrew Carnegie’s Steel plant.
What is the Homestead Strike?