People and Values
Which industrialist funded libraries and universities?
What is it called when a company breaks up a union?
Union Busting
What Company did Andrew Carnegie Found?
Carnegie Steel
What fueled Chicago’s population growth?
Industrial growth
Which amendment protects against unlawful searches?
4th
Which Industrialist Funded Hospitals?
John D. Rockefeller
Why did labor unions grow?
unfair labor conditions
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Standard oil founder
What was one major challenge immigrants faced?
Language/ Culture barriers
What principle gives each branch power over the others?
Checks and Balances
What American value is described by self-reliance and independence?
Individualism
What law limited monopolies like Standard Oil?
Sherman Antitrust Act
What is the process that involves heating steel and blowing cold air into it to stretch it called?
Bessemer steel process
Which concept is shown when Native Americans were forced to adopt U.S. dress?
Assimilation
Why do citizens serve on juries?
What does E Pluribus Unum mean?
In God we Trust
List the groups that were most taken advantage of by big business
Children, Women, and immigrants
Name TWO impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad.
(Settlement, markets, connected coasts, Chinese workforce)
What act granted land to citizens and immigrants in the west?
The Homestead Act of 1862
What Amendment grants free speech and assembly
1st
Which immigrants mostly settled in New England?
Irish and Italians.
How did political machines like Tammany Hall maintain power in cities?
By exchanging jobs, favors, and services for votes (patronage system).
Name the four captains of Industry we have discussed
Vanderbilt, Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller
What act barred Chinese people from gaining citizenship or immigrating here for 10 years?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
What is the first ten amendments called?
The bill of rights