Vocabulary
Big business owners bought out smaller companies and creating a what?
What is a monopoly
Movement applying Christian ethics to social issues, particularly issues of social justice.
What is social justice.
Who invented the light bulb, which resulted in longer work hours?
Who was thomas edison
Where did many Irish take jobs at? This made life hard because of poor living conditions; not to mention being discriminated against by Nativists
factories in the northeast
What connected the east and west coast of the United States
Transcontinental Railroads
The rich could influence political decisions because of their large sums of what?
Money
What was the cause of cities were not able to adequately address problems of poor sanitation, street congestion, and overcrowded housing (tenements)
Urbanization
Who began using the Transcontinental Railroad to move west
What is Settlers
What created a national market for farmers and businesses to sell their products
What is Transcontinental railroads
Who promoted philanthropy among wealthy industrialists known as the Gospel of Wealth
Who was Andrew Carnegie
New technology meant more production, more workers needed to make goods, and business owners accumulating more what?
Fortune
What was a major cause of urbanization as farmers left farms in the south for the steady income offered in factories in the north
Industrialization
What was passed due to government corruption, to help the wealthy businessmen instead of the everyday worker?
laws were passed
What is the process to produced steel in large quantities, allowing for the construction of cities, factories, and railroads
The Bessemer Process
What was another cause of urbanization
high levels of immigration