Railroads & Big Biz
Railroads allowed for the transportation of this from wells to processing centers and then refined products to consumers
What is oil?
Immigration center located in New York
What is Ellis Island?
What is "low"? What is "unsafe"?
Connected the East to the West
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)?
Integration involving the buying out of competition in the same industry
What is horizontal competition?
Immigration center located outside San Francisco, CA
What is Angel Island?
Invention of this led to longer work hours in factories
What is electric lighting?
US Government program that provided affordable land to get Americans to settle out West
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Discovery of this in the Black Hills leads to Americans encroaching on Lakota Sioux land which is a violation of the Treaty
What is gold?
Integration involving the owning of companies at all levels of production
What is vertical integration?
Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe, often protestant and wealthy
What/who are "Old Immigrants"?
Created by Samuel Gompers to peacefully collective bargain between workers and owners to improve conditions and wages
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Innovation made it cheap and easy to enclose large ranches out west
What is barbed wire?
US 7th Calvary is defeated by Native Americans at this battle
What is Battle of Little Big Horn?
Established a monopoly in the oil industry, founder of Standard Oil Co.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, often Catholic or Jewish
What/who are "New Immigrants"?
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell, this was an improvement of the telegraph which allowed for businesses to communicate more efficiently
What is the telephone?
Banned immigration from China after the completion of railroads
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Native religious movement led by Sitting Bull believed would restore stolen lands, return the buffalo, and make whites disappear
What is the Ghost Dance?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Immigrants from this country come to America through Angel Island to work on the Transcontinental RR and face severe discrimination
What is China?
Political party that is pro-Union and pro-worker
What is the Populist party?
Majority of railroads built by this population
What/who are immigrants?
US Army massacre nearly 300 Native Americans (most unarmed)
What is Battle at Wounded Knee?