Vocabulary
The practice of combining separate companies into one
Consolidation
What is capital and why do businesses need it?
Capital is anything used to start a business: money, equipment, labor, etc.
Immigrants coming through Ellis Island mostly came from where?
Southern and Eastern Europe
What was the main goal of the women's rights movement?
Women's Suffrage
Describe the difference in yellow journalism and muckrakers.
yellow journalism: exaggerated stories, sensational, not always factual
muckrakers: journalist who brought stories that were not pretty to light, focused on social problems
A type of residence that is often rundown and crowded
What was Henry Ford known for creating besides the Model T?
Assembly Line
Describe the changes in transportation. How did it affect people living outside of cities.
bridges, trolley cars, subways
they could visit cities for work, shopping, and entertainment
18th: Banned alcohol
21st: unbanned alcohol
Mexican American trade group
Mutualista
An American music style that combines work songs, gospel music, spirituals, and African rhythms
Jazz
What did Samuel Morse event?
The telegraph
Where did immigrants settle in the US? Describe what life was like.
Slums, tenement houses
What was the first federal law to control big business?
Sherman Antitrust Act
What is one example of a strike. Describe what happened.
Haymarket Square Strike, Carnegie's Steel Plant Strike, Pullman Railway-Car Strike
The process of resolving disputes between people or groups by agreeing to accept a decision of a neutral party
Arbitration
What did rebates do to smaller companies?
Pushed them out of business
What are examples of spectator sports.
What did the Square Deal call for?
government regulation of business, promised to defend the public interest on consumer issues, and he supported the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Highly populated, poor, rundown urban area
Slum
A stockholder's share of a company's profits, usually as a cash payment
Dividend
What industries were improved by the railroads?
Steel, coal, timber
What was middle class life like?
Comfortable, leisure activities, lived in suburbs
Why did reformers want the railroads to be regulated and what happened because of this?
It was an oligopoly, they raised the prices extremely high
The Interstate Commerce Act was put in place to regulate prices charged.
Person hired to replace a striking worker in order to break up a strike
Strikebreaker