Businessman
A man who created The steamboat industry and the railroad industry, Rockefeller's
who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
A room or set of rooms forms a separate residence within a house or block apartments, tiny space
What is, Tenement
When a business grows by acquiring a similar company in their industry at the same point of the supply chain When a business expands by acquiring another company that operates before or after them in the supply chain.
What is Horizontal/Vertical Integration
Shifted the primary goal of American unionism away from social issues and toward the bread and butter issues of wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions,
Who is, Samuel Gompers
Represents the collective interests of workers, bargaining with employers over such concerns as wages and working conditions.
What is Labor Union
One of the most powerful bankers of his era, Financed railroads and helped organize U.S Steel, General Electric, and other major Corporations.
Who is J.P. Morgan
A schedule that everyone in railroad trains follows to avoid a disaster, is now used 24/7 today
What is Railroad time( time zone)
The idea that all of the cultural differences in the United States meld together.
What is, Melting Pot
A progressive social reformer and activist, on the frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Who is, Jane Addams
The policy of protecting the Interests of Native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is Nativism
Founder of the Standard Oil Company,
who is John D Rockfeller
A steel making process, now largely supeerseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort
What is, Bessemer Process
The movement of people within urban areas using group travel technologies such as buses, trains and cars
What is, Mass Transit
Was to justify political conservatism, imperliaslism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform
What is, Social Darwinsim
Congress passed a measure to repeal the discriminatory exclusion laws against Chinese immigrants and to establish an immigration quota for China of around 105 visas per year.
What is, Chinese Exclusion Act
A Scottish- American Industrialist and philanthropist. Led The expansion of the American steel indusrty
The invention of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
Helped America by connecting west with east,
What is, transcontinental railroad
Most famous female labor activist of the nineteenth Century, She was so strident that a US attorney once labeled her the most dangerous woman in America
Who is, Mary Harris Jones
Was a violent labour dispute between the Carnegie steel company and many of its workers occurred in 1892,
What is Homestead strike
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices,
What is, Robber Baron
A factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.
What is, Sweatshop
The desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed Especially by the generous donation of money to good causes
What is, Philanthropy
The president of the american railway union, which represente about one third of pullman workers and which had concluded a successful strike against the great northern railway company in April 1894
Who is, Eugene v Debs
Was a violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886,
What is, Haymarket affair