Innovation Boosts Growth
Controlling all steps of pructuion, from raw materials to distrubution is called?
Vertical Intergration.
A cramped, dirty, and poorly ventilated factory is known as what?
A sweatshop.
Name one push factor that brought immigrants to the United States.
Religious Persecution
Famine (Starvation)
Opprotunity
etc.
What was a pull factor to the US for immigrants
Land, Jobs, Religious freedom
The expansion of this innovation allowed cities to spread westward.
Railroads
John D. Rockefeller is associated with what industry.
Oil
The Federal Government typically sided with this group.
Business Owners.
The East Coast landing point for immigrants was called.
Ellis Island.
immigrants blending in to American Culture is often called what?
Melting Pot
Pull factor.
Who is credited with the invention of the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
The largest labor revolt in the United States.
The Battle of Blair Mountain.
(Matewan Massacre)
Angel Island (San Francisco)processed immigrants mainly from where?
Asia
What immigrant group was crucial for building the western railroads?
Irish and Chinese
Which entrepreneur started a business that one could describe as the first Amazon?
Sears
What process helped with the mass production of Steel?
Bessemer Process
The private police force commonly used by companies to break strikes.
The Pinkerton Detective Agency.
People who were against immigration because of job competition and fear of cultural change were known as
Nativists
When was the transcontinental railroad completed?
1869
This was the first law to limit immigration by nationality.
Chinese Exclusion Act.
The U.S. government during the Gilded Age let private businesses guide the economy with little to no intervention. This is known as what?
Laissez-faire Economics
The base tactic used by labor unions.
Collective Bargaining
The crowed apartments that many immigrants lived in were called
Tenements
New Immigrants after 1880 primarily came from
Southern and Eastern Europe
This "political machine" was well known for coercing immigrant workers in exchange for votes.
Tammany Hall.