Immigration
Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants on the west coast. Took weeks or months to be processed.
What is a Angel Island?
The growth of cities due to an influx of people.
What is urbanization?
Dominated finance and banking.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
Organizations that fought for better wages, safer working conditions, work reforms.
What are labor unions?
Landmark that immigrants saw as they entered America through Ellis Island.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
The 2 word term " ____ _________ " applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe and Asia. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is New Immigrant?
May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah marked its completion.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Controlled railroads and shipping.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Labor union that accepted men, women, skilled and unskilled laborers of all races, except the Chinese.
What is the Knights of Labor?
Term for a wealthy American industrialist or financier during the Gilded Age who used unethical business practices to make their fortune.
What is a robber baron?
2 word term for the blending together of cultures in America into one dominant culture.
What is a Melting Pot?
Invented the first functioning airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
Controlling an entire industry by getting rid of all competition.
What is a monopoly?
Union that focused on skilled labor led by Samuel Gompers.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The method for mass-producing steel at a low cost, which allowed for the mechanization of industry and the construction of modern cities and factories.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Scottish immigrant who founded the US Steel Company.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Averaged 10 to 20 cents per hour and worked 13+ hour days under poor conditions.
What is a factory worker?
Idea that government should play as small a role as possible and not interfere in economic affairs.
What is Laissez-Faire economics?
Name 2 push or pull factors for immigrants during the Gilded Age.
Push - Poverty; Political instability; Religious persecution; Lack of opportunity in home countries
Pull - Economic opportunities; "American Dream:" religious freedom, political stability
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories.
What are tenement buildings?
Business strategy that involves a company owning and operating multiple stages of its production process.
What is Vertical Integration?
The Homestead Strike was a dispute between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and?
What is the Carnegie Steel Company?
Name 3 words that described the United States prior to Industrialization.
-Rural -Agricultural -Handmade -Localized
-Skilled labor -Limited resources -Small scale
-Expensive -Slow paced - Agrarian