Industrialization
Revolutionized communication by allowing people to speak and hear each other instantly over vast distances.
Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)
When all workers in a specific factory or industry refuse to work, it is called a...
Strike
Discrimination against people based on their national origin or place of birth is called...
Nativism
Oil tycoon who created the most powerful monopoly in American history.
John D. Rockefeller
The only place where today is before yesterday.
A dictionary
The "transportation revolution" was characterized by technological improvements that sped up travel significantly. Which new form of transportation marked the beginning of this revolution?
Steamboats
This organization made the 8-hour workday one of their highest priorities.
Knights of Labor
Push and Pull factors that contribute to immigration can usually be categorized as either political, economic or _________________.
Environmental
JP Morgan's strategy of buying up small, failing businesses and consolidating them into one big profitable corporation.
"Morganization"
You see a boat full of people, but there is not a single person on it. How is this possible?
They are all married
One of the benefits of the industrial economy was the availability of jobs that did not require significant education or training, also known as ______________.
Unskilled Labor
Private police forces hired by business owners to break strikes.
Pinkertons
At the turn of the 20th century, millions of European immigrants passed through the processing facility on this island, located off the coast of Manhattan.
Ellis Island
The innovation that allowed Henry Ford to mass produce cars propelling to the top of the automobile industry.
Moving Assembly Line
What country purchases the most Venezuelan AND Iranian oil?
China
The US economy before the Civil War was largely based on what?
Agriculture/Farming
This strike resulted in decreased wages for workers and bankrupted the Steel Workers union.
Homestead Strike, 1892
The first ever federal immigration legislation that targeted a specific nationality.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
If a business owns the mines that gather iron ore, the factories that melt the ore, the factories that create steel alloy out of the melted iron, the factories that fabricate steel beams for construction, AND the construction company that assembles the core structure of a skyscraper, this would be an example of what business strategy?
Vertical Integration
What is the only African country to never be colonized by Europeans?
Ethiopia
This invention was a necessary precursor for the development of automobiles.
Internal Combustion Engine
This President called in the US Army to break the Pullman Strike because it was interrupting the delivery of US Mail.
Grover Cleveland
Gentleman's Agreement (1907)
Buying stock in a company relentlessly until you become the majority shareholder is known as a...
Hostile Takeover
Which country currently claims to have the biblical "Ark of the Covenant"?
Ethiopia