Industrialization
Innovation that allowed for mass production in factories.
What is the assembly line?
Organization of skilled workers led by Samuel Gompers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Poor, crowded urban apartment buildings.
What are tenements?
Term used by Mark Twain to describe the superficial prosperity of the era.
What is the Gilded Age?
Government act that gave settlers land in the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
Business leader known for dominating the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Major strike by railroad workers in 1894.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Processing station for European immigrants in New York
What is Ellis Island?
Corrupt political boss of New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed?
Railroad that connected the eastern U.S. to the Pacific coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Economic theory that opposes government interference in business.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
Violent 1886 labor conflict that hurt the labor movement.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
Belief that immigrants threatened American culture and jobs.
What is nativism?
System of giving government jobs to loyal supporters.
What is the spoils system?
1890 battle that marked the end of Native American resistance.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Term for owning all phases of production (used by Carnegie).
What is vertical integration?
Group that welcomed skilled, unskilled, and women workers.
What are the Knights of Labor?
Law that banned Chinese immigration in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Act that created merit-based exams for civil service jobs.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
Assimilation law that broke up tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Act?
Law meant to limit monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Term for replacing striking workers.
What are strikebreakers (or “scabs”)?
Term for the blending of diverse cultures into American society.
What is the “melting pot”?
Political party that challenged corruption and supported farmers.
What is the Populist Party (or People’s Party)?
Farmers' political movement that demanded regulation of railroads.
What is the Grange (or Granger Movement)?