Innovation
What are the two industries the development of railroads had the greatest impact on?
What are steel and oil?
What industry did John D. Rockefeller have a monopoly over?
What organization is shorthanded by AFL?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
What is the term that is defined as "a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity"?
What is ethnic enclave?
What is the difference in regards to transportation between boomtowns that exploded in population in 1849 versus in the late 1800s?
What is in the late 1800s, boomtowns in did not require the traditional method of transportation of wagon and instead used the developing railroad system?
What was the name of the business strategy that Andrew Carnegie employed?
What is vertical integration?
What were the two major labor unions in the late 1800s to very early 1900s?
What are the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor?
T/F: Was the Social Gospel opposed to social Darwinism?
Who patented the Railway Air Brake?
Who was George Westinghouse?
The ______ _______ ____ was passed that ensured just and reasonable rates from businesses and prevent the formation of monopolies.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
What changes in the activities of the middle class occurred as a result of increased pay?
What are biking, shopping, amusement parks, dancing, and/or sporting events?
What group founded the YMCA?
What is the Social Gospel?
Where did the two railroad companies meet that constructed the Transcontinental Railroad and what were their names?
What is they met in Promontory Summit, Utah, and were called the Central Pacific Railroads company and the Union Pacific Railroad Company?
What Supreme Court Case established warehouse business was sufficiently "clothed with public interest" to justify public control?
What industrialist said "great inequalities of wealth were a natural consequence of industrial society, but... The deserving poor had an opportunity to improve themselves”?
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
The new wave of immigration primarily consisted of 5 ethnic groups. What are 3 of the groups?
What are Italians, Slavs, Greeks, Jews, and Armenians?
What were the four most prevalent innovations of the late mid to late 1800s?
What are the oil drilling method, the railway air brake, the telephone, and the lightbulb?
Taking an alternate approach to reform, ____ published a series of exposés that alerted the public for the need for antitrust legislation and served as a template for muckraking journalism, that is, journalism designed to reform through exposés.
Who was Henry Lloyd?
Which industrialist donated $350 million dollars to libraries and universities?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What major organization came from England to America in 1879?
What is the Salvation Army?