Innovations
Which innovation refined steel?
Banned the Chinese from coming to
the US for 10 years, with little exception
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Known as TrustBuster
President Theodore Roosevelt
What animal is used to picture Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company?
Octupus
Oil Tycoon
John D. Rockefeller
The process of favoring native born individuals over immigrants is called
Nativist
Founder of the American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
3 things you learned about Capitalism
Adam Smith: "The Wealth of the Nations"
Division of classes
inequality
Steel Tycoon
Andrew Carneige
The Union Pacific Railroad company started building the Transcontinental Railroad in
Omaha, Nebraska
Which of these immigrant groups would be the most likely to face discrimination in the late 1800s?
Protestants
Asians
Slovakians
British
Asians
Patented the air brake
George Westinghouse
3 things you learned about Socialism:
Karl Marx and Frederick Engles: "The Communist Manifesto"
Everything is equal
No class division
Took pictures at night to expose the horrors of the way people lived
Jacob Riis
Patented the bicycle brake
John Jacob Astor
Describe a Melting Pot:
Lose cultural identity
Become American
Lose native language
Assisted railroads in Financial Trouble
JP Morgan
What is the name of the law that broke up monopolies?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Who is the muckraker that exposed The Standard Oil Company?
Ida Tarbell
Which event resulted in the execution of four anarchists and the decline of the Knights of Labor?
The Sherman Anti-trust laws
The Haymarket Riot
The Molly Maguires
Creation of more unions
The Haymarket Riot
Describe a Salad Bowl:
Maintain cultural identity
Maintain Language
Work together as Americans while keeping own customs
Railroad Tycoon
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Why was America broken into time zones?
To assist and standardize railroad travel
Who made up the majority of immigrants before 1850?
Eurpean Protastants