Big Business Men
Apprentice to Edison/ created the AC system
Nikola Tesla
What is one advantage of moving West?
answers may vary
What is one example of a vertical integration monopoly that exists today?
Amazon
Name one example of HORIZONTAL integration.
Railroad industry
What is the term for when a company, maintains complete control over an industry and has no competitor?
Monopoly
invented the Phonograph and lightbulb
Thomas Edison
Which area of the USA did the settlement begin after the railroad is being built?
The West
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
racial segregation was constitutional (separate but equal)
What is the term: proposed dividing reservation land into allotments to be distributed to individual Native Americans who would use the land to farm or ranch and have a chance to become American citizens.
Dawes Act
This person is responsible for creating the mass production of steel.
Andrew Carnegie
What is one advantage of moving to the West?
answers may vary
The Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese immigrants from becoming citizens for ________ years and prevented them from becoming citizens in the USA.
10
John D. Rockefeller gained control over much of the oil industry by managing a trust made up of _________________ and allied companies.
Standard Oil
Responsible for monopolies over the railroad and steel industry/Wealthy banker
J. P. Morgan
What did the Homestead Act allow?
claim land cheaply and within 3-5 years
________ _____________ sought out to maximize their profits by eliminating competition by exploiting workers.
Robber Barons
What is one of the Jim Crow Laws?
separate schools for blacks and whites, poll tax, grandfather clause, etc.
What is one of the reasons the United States expanded its economy with manufacturing?
Railroad tycoon using the steamboat business/ worth $100 million when he died
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What are two disadvantages of moving West?
high temps, prarie fires, grasshoppes that destroyed crops, blizzards, scarcity of trees
What is Nativism?
extreme hatred towards immigrations/ restriction on immigration
Why did the Haymarket Riot, Pullman Strike, and the Great Railroad strike start?
As a result of the The harsh working conditions, little pay, and long hours forced by the “Big Business” industry