a business owned by many people who buy shares of the company's stock
What is a corporation?
100
a stray calf without a brand; today refers to someone who doesn't always follow the rules, a non-conformist.
What is a maverick?
100
list of troublemakers that employers would not hire
What is blacklist?
100
Two main immigration processing centers
What are Ellis and Angel Islands?
100
Most immigrants settled here for factory job opportunities.
What are cities?
200
theory of socialism that advocates a classless society and common ownership of the means of production
What is marxism?
200
A plot of land given to Native American families under the terms of the Dawes Act to encourage farming by Native Americans and assimilation into American culture.
What is allotment?
200
to let an impartial outsider settle a dispute
What is arbitration?
200
Hostility towards immigrants
What is nativism?
200
Law passed in 1882 which restricted Asian immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
formed by workers to bargain for better wages and working conditions.
What is labor union
300
Cowboys used these to bring cattle from west Texas to rail depots in Kansas.
What are cattle drives?
300
a riot in Chicago in 1886 that began after a bombing blamed on anarchists
What is Haymarket Square Riot?
300
Journalist, photographer, author of How the Other Half Lives
Who is Jacob Riis?
300
Leader of Tammany Hall, a New York City political machine in the 1870's
Who is Boss Tweed?
400
combining companies that supply equipment and services for a particular industry. (example: steel industry under Carnegie)
What is vertical integration?
400
160 acres of land given to settlers by the US gov't if the settlers would live on the land for 5 years and make improvements.
What is a homestead?
400
nationwide strike in 1877 triggered by successive wage cuts; crushed by state militias after strikers inflicted millions of dollars worth of damage and brought transportation and distribution to a standstill.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
400
This philosophy said the very wealthy should support their dependents in modest ways and use the remainder of their great wealth for public and social causes (philanthropy)
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
400
This novelist wrote rags-to-riches stories which inspired Americans to work hard hoping to gain success.
Who is Horatio Alger?
500
the total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year.
What is gross national product (GNP)?
500
to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population
What is assimilate?
500
The leader of the American Federation of Labor who advised members to stay away from radical politics and make reasonable demands, leading to more general acceptance of unions in America.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
500
centers established in poor immigrant neighborhoods to provide medical care, recreation programs, libraries, and English classes.
What are settlement houses? (example: Hull House by Jane Addams in Chicago)
500
This act of Congress gave land to states in the midwest to establish A&M colleges to train farmers and engineers.