Industrial Revolution
This protected industry from foreign competition.
tariff
This person helped to establish new industries that transformed private life, public entertainment, and economic activity, including the phonograph, lightbulb, motion picture, and system for generating and distributing electric power.
Thomas Edison
This business leader made his fortune in steel and despite running his businesses with an iron fist also distributed much of his wealth to various philanthropies.
[Andrew] Carnegie
This percent of the richest Americans received the same total income as the bottom half of the population and owned more property and the remaining 99 percent.
One percent.
When the railroads adopted this in 1886, it made it possible of trains from one company to travel on tracks of another railroad.
Standard Gauge
By 1913, the US produced this much of the world’s industrial output.
One-third
The amount of railroad track in the US increased by this proportion between 1860 and 1880 and then by this proportion again between 1880 and 1920
three times
This is an insulting label used to refer to the men who made vast fortuned in industry
Robber Barons
This became a familiar figure as thousands of men took to the roads in the 1870’s and 90’s due to economic turmoil that put them out of work.
The Tramp
In the 1893 lecture, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” this historian argued that distinctive American qualities of individual freedom, political democracy, and economic mobility were formed.
Frederick Jackson Turner
Half of all industrial workers at this time worked in factories with more than this many employees
250
The opening of this in 1886 made it possible to send electronic telegraph messages instantaneously between the US and Europe.
TransAtlantic Cable
This is a complimentary label to refer to the men who made vast fortunes in industry.
Captains of Industry
The harsh frontier lifestyle affected this member of most families most negatively.
Wives/women
Between 1870 and 1920, this many Americans moved from farm to city.
11 million
By 1890, this percentage of Americans worked for wages rather than owning a farm, business, or craft shop
two-thirds
Before the 1930’s, this is what the time period between 1873 and 1897 was called.
The Great Depression
These two companies were among the giant corporations that emerged from the economic concentration of industries between 1897 & 1904.
US Steel, Standard Oil, International Harvester
Nell Cusack wrote about wretched conditions among the growing number of women working for wages in the city’s homes, factories, and sweatshops in this expose.
City Slave Girls
This was a way that the US government subsidized Westward migration and industrialization.
Land grants to railroad companies, used army to remove indians
Between 1870 and 1920 this many immigrants arrived from overseas
25 million
This region was the heartland of the industrial revolution with its factories producing iron, steel, machinery, chemicals, and packaged food.
Great Lakes Region
These legal devices were used to enable the coordination of formerly rival companies under one director.
Trusts
Many began to worry, as Henry Demarest Lloyd wrote in Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894), that concentrated wealth would corrupt and undermine this.
Political process/system
This was the most multicultural state in the Union in the late 19th century.
North Dakota