people
created the tweed ring
Boss Tweed
a strike to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police
Haymarket strike
A house that would provide support for poor immigrants
settlement house
the creation of this made it easier to travel from the bottom floor to the top floor in a skyscraper
elevator
a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way
Captain of industry
monopolized the oild industry and controlled over 90% of it
John D. Rockefeller
refused to meet with workers to hear their requests for higher wages, lower rents, and better working conditions in the railroad industry
Pullmen strike
people who believed that the immigrants would take there jobs
Nativist
the first process that is able to mass produce steel in the US
bessemer process
A form of cartoons people would use to expose political figures
political cartoons
exposed the poor conditions of the tenements by using new camera technology
Jacob Riis
people working in carnege's steel industry start a strike for wage cuts.
homestead srike
factors that would push immigrants out of the countries and pull them to the US
push poll factors
a railroad that stretched across the US
transcontinental Railroad
a run-down and overcrowded apartment house that the poor lived in
tenements
who helped create the light bulb
Thomas Eddison
authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them.
shermen-antistrust act
An act that restricted Chinese immigration for 10 years
chinese exclusion act
tall buildings that were built as the population increased
skyscrapers
The Jungle
built the formidable American steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
an economic philosophy that advocates for minimal government interference in the economy.
Laissez-faire economics
was An immigration station for the European immigrants
Ellis island
how did Jacob riis created the camera flash
ignited magnesium powder with a pistol
successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical
Robber barons