Industrial Titans
Which industrialists built his fortune in the steel
Andrew Carnegie
Most "New Immigrants" came from which region during the late 1800s?
Southern and Eastern Europe
Asia
This organization, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on higher wages and improved working conditions.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This agricultural organization was founded by Oliver Kelley to address farmers concerns
The Grange
The Dawes Act
Which industrialist created Standard Oil and dominated the oil inudstry
John D. Rockefeller
These are overcrowded apartment building housing many urban immigrants that were in the cities.
Dumbbell Tenements
Knights of Labor
This was the major economic problem caused when farmers produced more crops than could be sold?
Agricultural surplus
Overproduction
This group of African Americans migrated west after Reconstruction seeking land and opportunity.
Exodusters
What business strategy involves controlling every step of production, from raw materials to distribution?
Vertical Integration
This movement encouraged immigrants to adopt American language, customs, and values?
Americanization
This 1886 event hurt the labor movement because many Americans associated unions with violence and radicalism
The Haymarket Riot
This was the name of the 1890s political movement that sought reforms benefiting farmers?
Populist Party
This 1890 event marked the violent suppression of Native American resistance and the Ghost Dance movement?
Wounded Knee Massacre
What business strategy involves buying or merging with competing companies in the same industry?
Horizontal Integration
Explain the primary motivation behind nativism.
Hostility toward immigrants and preference for native-born Americans
Nativists believed that immigrants: were associated with crime and disease, illiterate, brought down wages, etc.
This was a major railroad-related strike in 1894 that demonstrated that the federal government would often support business over laborers.
Pullman Strike
What monetary policy did Populists support to increase the money supply?
Free Coinage of Silver
Bimetallism
This 1862 law encouraged westward settlement by granting 160 acres of land to settlers willing to live on and improve the property
The Homestead Act
Critics used what term to describe wealthy business leaders who gained enormous power through aggressive business practices?
This immigration law was passed in 1882 and was the first legislation to restrict immigrant entry.
Name TWO common working conditions faced by industrial workers during the Giedd Age
Any of the following are accepted:
Long hours
Low wages
Dangerous conditions
No job security
Few workplace protections
Name TWO cause of the Panic of 1893.
Any of the following are correct:
Railroad overexpansion
Railroad Speculation
Banking Failures
Drought
Falling exports
The expansion of this industry brought an end to the Era of the cowboy.
The Railroads