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The growth of cities
Urbanization
A policy of favoring native born people over immigrants.
Nativism
American inventor who was responsible for inventing the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
The time between the Civil War and World War I where there was rapid growth and industrialization, increase in the standard of living, new inventions and technologies, and a lot of political corruption and corporate financial dishonesty.
The Gilded Age
American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures
Thomas Edison
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west
Transcontinental Railroad
A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
Corporation
Economic system in which private businesses and individuals control the means of production
Free Enterprise
A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business venture.
Entrepreneur
A wealthy person who tries to get land, businesses, or more money in a way that is dishonest or wrong
Robber Baron
A multifamily urban dwelling, usually overcrowded and unsanitary.
Tenement
Founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870 and, by 1880, exercised a virtual monopoly over oil refining in the US.
John D. Rockefeller
The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a product or service.
Monopoly
A policy that allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government.
Laissez-Faire
A law, enacted in 1890, that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade.
Sherman Antitrust Act
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
Union
An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands.
Strike
A secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
Knights of Labor
A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply
Bessemer Process
A wealthy person who donates money to charitable causes.
Philanthropist
Something that makes you want to leave your home country
ex. war, poverty
push factors
Factors that attract people to move to a new place
Pull factors
Industrialist that dominated the industrial steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
First federal law to restrict immigration where Chinese immigrants were banned for 10 years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The process where immigrants learn to speak, dress, and act like other Americans
Americanization