The West
Railroads allowed the United States to move where?
The West
Invented the first incandescent lightbulb
Edison
Chinese Exclusion Act
The most successful union of the Gilded Age
American Federation of Labor
The idea that being loyal or giving money to a government official will help you gain a government job
Spoils system/ Patronage
What was the first thing that convinced settlers to move west.
Mining
Is known for the Standard Oil company
John D. Rockefeller
These immigrants mostly came from Southern and Eastern Europe
New Immigrants
A tactic used by unions to gain better pay/ stopped production
A Strike
Which Act intended to end monopolies
Sherman Anti Trust Act
What act allowed the US Government to offer settlers 160 acres to citizens who would improve the land.
The Homestead Act
Explain what vertical and horizontal integration are
Vertical- a company buys all levels of an industry
horizontal- a company buys all of one level in production in an industry
Areas where immigrants settled with similar people and similar cultures. ie Chinatown, Little Italy
Ethnic Neighborhoods
Involved whiskey distillers bribing government officials to avoid paying taxes
Whiskey Ring
Which act required merit based exams and intended to end patronage
Pendleton Act
What was the new invention farmers used to close off their farms?
Barbed Wire
Uses a board of trustees to manage their company.
Trust
What was the name of the buildings the immigrants lived in
tenements
Well-organized groups that controlled a political party in a city
politcal machines
Which act regulated railroads and railroad rates
Interstate commerce act
The Granger Movement purpose was to help who become educated?
Farmers
Explain Social Darwinism.
The Strongest survive. Competition weeds out the weak and the strong survive.
the idea that immigrants posed a threat to native-born Americans and their way of life
Nativism
How were unions portrayed by the media following strikes such as the Homestead Strike and Chicago Haymarket strikes
Violent
Which Muckraker wrote "The Jungle" exposing the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair