Immigration
These immigrants generally came from Southern/Eastern Europe and were largely Catholic or Jewish.
Who were "New Immigrants"?
This innovation sped up steel production, making it more efficient and cheaper.
What is the Bessemer process?
Established by Jane Addams and others to help immigrants assimilate to life in US.
What are settlement houses?
Founder of Standard Oil Company.
Designed to protect domestic industry from foreign competition.
What are tariffs?
Process of immigrants learning to speak, act, and behave like Americans.
What is Americanization?
Policy by which there is little or no government interference or regulation.
What is "laissez-faire"?
Term used for run-down housing often seen in crowded cities.
What are tenements?
Steel producer and author of The Gospel of Wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Term used when one business controls a market.
What is a monopoly?
Reasons like poverty, war, freedom, and jobs that cause people to immigrate to the US.
"push"/"pull" factors
Term used for one who starts a business or industry
What is an entrepreneur?
Organizations that helped immigrants in exchange for their vote in elections.
What are political machines?
Boss of Tammany Hall political machine in New York City.
Who is William Tweed?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This term refers to an area largely settled by one ethnic group.
What is a ghetto?
Organizations formed by workers.
What are labor unions?
Term for small factory that worked people for long hours and little pay in often crowded conditions.
What is a "sweatshop"?
Started the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Term used for donations made by wealthy industrialists to schools, museums, etc.
What is philanthropy?
This refers to those who resent immigrants or seek to prevent immigration.
What are nativists?
One of the first labor unions. Allowed women and unskilled labor to join.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Situation where political machine bosses and city officials steal money from the public.
What is corruption?
Terms given to industrialists like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt.
Who are robber barons/captains of industry?
Type of business controlled by shareholders rather than a single person or partnership.
What is a corporation?