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What invention allowed factory work to continue after sunset?
Lightbulb
Poorly built one-room apartments that housed multiple immigrant families, unsanitary and unsafe
Tenements
Canals
What grocery store does Brookshire's own?
Super 1
What restaurant does Arby's own?
Buffalo Wild Wings
Poorly lit and unsafe buildings, in which immigrants worked long hours for little pay
Sweatshops
Allowed steel to be produced more cheaply and efficiently
Bessemer Process
Dominated the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie believed that rich Americans should donate great amounts of money to charity
Gospel of Wealth
JP Morgan
Formed the Standard Oil Trust
John D. Rockefeller
Market system in which there is only one maker of a product, eliminates competition
Monopoly
Name given to corrupt businessmen by the people, they took advantage of cheap labor provided by immigrants and other groups
Robber Barons
Captains of Industry
Limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States through a national origins quota
Immigration Act of 1924
Business arrangement under which some companies unite into one system, eliminates competition
Trust
Belief that America is its best when native people formed the majority of the population
Nativism
The rich should not help the poor too much, natural selection
Social Darwinism
Who bought Andrew Carnegie's steel company?
J.P. Morgan
Island that processed immigrants from Asia
Angel Island
Thin layer of prosperity for rich people, covered up the corruption and poverty that most Americans lived
Glided Age
Dominated the railroad industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
148 died in a Manhattan Sweatshop in 1911
Triangle Shirwaist Factory Fire
Founder of the Westinghouse Electric Company
George Westinghouse
What are the two monopolies in your home?
Electricity and Water