Industrialization
This term describes the process of mass production using machines in factories.
Industrialization
This term describes a political, economic, and social movement campaigning to improve the rights and conditions of working people.
Organized Labor or the Labor Movement
This term describes the growth of cities over time.
Urbanization
Where did most immigrants to the United States come from during the Second Industrial Revolution?
Southern and Eastern Europe
What term describes something covered in a thin layer of gold paint?
Gilded
This is a type of business organization that reduces risk while expanding capital through the sale of shares.
A Corporation
This is an association of workers (usually within an industry or trade) that uses collective bargaining and other tactics to improve working conditions.
Labor Unions
This was the first major Nativist law passed by the US government (restricting immigration to the US).
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This term describes immigration during the Antebellum period and the years immediately following the Civil War.
Old Immigration
This is a type of political organization that exchanged essential services for votes for their candidate.
Political Machines
A French phrase that means "to let do," describing a hands-off government approach to economic regulation.
Laissez Faire
This labor union allowed all people (expect lawyers, gamblers, and liquor dealers) to join.
The Knights of Labor
This Danish immigrant used photography to expose the horrible living conditions of the urban poor in New York City.
Jacob Riis
This term describes the process by which immigrants adopt mainstream American cultural and political values.
Assimilation
This person controlled the Tammany Hall political machine during the Gilded Age (and defrauded the NY government for millions).
William (Boss) Tweed
This industry experienced dramatic growth because of the development of the Bessemer Process (as well as the continued construction of railroads).
The Steel Industry
This labor union was only opened to skilled workers organized into trade or craft unions.
American Federation of Labor
This is a type of community/neighborhood dominated by a single racial, ethnic, or national group.
An ethnic community
This term describes anti-immigration sentiments and policies in the United States.
Nativism
This was a system of rewarding loyal political party followers with political positions.
The Spoils System (or Patronage)
This inventor perfected a method of distributing electricity over long distances using alternating current.
Nicola Tesla
The radical leader of the United Railway Workers Union and later a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party.
Eugene Debs
Northeast and Midwest
This was the processing center in San Francisco for Asian immigrants coming to the US during the Industrial period.
Angel Island
This was a national political corruption scandal in which railroad executives created a construction company that overcharged the government for building the transcontinental railroad (to avoid being caught -- the company bribed Congressmen with stock in the company).
The Credit Mobilier Scandal