Vocabulary
Vocabulary and People
People
People and Main Ideas
Main Ideas and Concepts
100
A share of ownership in a company.
What is stock?
100
A large open area beneath a ship's deck.
What is steerage?
100
He invented a sewing machine that became a fixture in American households?
Who was Isaac Singer?
100
He was the labor leader of the American Federation, whose members were made up of skilled workers.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
100
Working conditions in the factories after the Civil War.
What were 10 to 12 hours workdays, workweeks of six days, low pay, potential for dangerous accidents, pollution, poor lighting, and loud noise?
200
The act of keeping a person or group out.
What is exclusion?
200
He invented the telephone in 1876.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
200
This union leader led an unsuccessful railroad strike against the Pullman Company in 1894.
Who was Eugene Debs?
200
Reasons for most labor strikes in the late 1800s being unsuccessful.
What were that corporations were too large and powerful, employers had the ability to fire workers who went on strike and hire new people, and the corporations had the support of government?
300
A grant that gives an inventor the sole right to make and sell an invention for a set period of time.
What is a patent?
300
He invented the electric light bulb.
Who wasThomas Edison?
300
He controlled the oil industry through the Standard Oil Company.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
300
The purpose of this law was to exclude this group from the United States in 1882.
Who were the Chinese?
300
The characteristics of the first wave of immigrants to the United States.
Who were immigrants from northern and western Europe, Protestant in faith, and had some education and experience living under a representative government?
400
A large company usually formed by a group of investors.
What is a corporation?
400
He invented a method for producing a stronger type of steel.
Who was Henry Bessemer?
400
He was a powerful business leader involved in the steel industry.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
400
Two major goals of labor unions after the Civil War.
What were better wages, working conditions, and a shorter workday?
400
The characteristics of the second wave of immigrants to the United States.
Who were immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, whose beliefs included many religions, who were poor, who could not read and write, who lived in nondemocratic countries, and who had different religions, customs, and languages from other Americans?
500
Complete control over a supply, service, or market.
What is a monopoly?
500
He revolutionized the car industry by producing his cars on an assembly line.
Who was Henry Ford?
500
He was a business leader and banker who formed the United States Steel Corporation in 1901, making it the largest company in the nation.
Who was J.P. Morgan?
500
The growth of industry in the United States after the Civil War created a separation between these people.
What were the great wealth of some business owners and the working people living in poverty?
500
Why many Americans opposed the second wave of immigrants to the United States.
What is they believed immigrants were different and couldn't fit in and were suspicious of ethnic communities. And what is religious and cultural prejudice?
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