Industrial Revolution
This engine powered the Industrial Revolution
What is the Steam Engine?
This is the term for the wave of immigrants that came during the gilded age, as distinct from those that came before.
What is, "New Immigration"
This is the name for an corporation that has universal power to control prices within it's industry, as it faces no competition
What is a monopoly
This President was more progressive than his predecessor, but is mostly remembered for being fat.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This is the name of the vessel used in most tenement apartments before toilets
This industry benefited from the need to built many factories and tall buildings in urban areas, as well as the development of the national rail network
What is the steel industry?
This religion, which most immigrants from Italy and Poland followed, was hated by a sect of Americans who eventually formed the, "Know-Nothing Party"
What is Catholicism?
This business practice occurs when a company controls the entirety of the manufacturing process, from beginning to end
What is vertical integration?
This term describes the how members of a Union would collect themselves and negotiate for better conditions
What is collective bargaining?
These apartments had on average about 7 people living in them, often with just a single bedroom
What is a tenement?
Not Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, this philosophy developed by Andrew Carnegie promoted the idea that the rich got their wealth from God, and had a duty to be charitable with it
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
War, Poverty, Religious Persecution, and Political instability are all examples of these types of reasons to immigrate
What are push factors?
What are its competitors?
The Great Upheaval shut down this industry on the US East for Weeks
What is the railroad industry?
This President ran for a third term, was shot in the chest while delivering a speech, finished the speech, then lost the election
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
The development of a national rail network made the need to standardize this ever moving concept, into distinct zones
What is time?
Most immigrants worked factory jobs, which are categorized using this term. This term contrasts these types of jobs from those that require specialized training
What are unskilled jobs?
This Captain of Industry/Robber Baron made his fortune by investing in many companies across a variety of industries
Who is JP Morgan?
This law was designed to ensure that "real Americans" could get jobs with minimal competition
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These were built all across the country out of the generosity of Andrew Carnegie
What are libraries?
These organizations helped redevelop and upgrade roads across the US and Great Britain
What are Turnpike Trusts?
Immigrants lived in these communities with other immigrants from the same country. This also the name for a part of one country inside another
What is an enclave?
Under a Capitalist System, the economy is run without the interference of the government, and is often described with this French term that loosely mean, "Hands off"
What is Laissez-faire?
This Union was initially a secret organization - and allowed for African American and women members
What is the Knights of Labor?
This man did not want to be President, and I wouldn't either if I knew I'd be shot just a few months into my first term
Who is James A. Garfield?