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A person who accepts the risk of starting and running a business.
What is an Entrepreneur
100
A business owned by stockholders who share in its profits but are not personally responsible for its debts.
What is a corporation
100
Refusal by employees to work, often used to try and obtain worker rights or privilege.
What is a Strike
100
Gave Indians citizenship and right to vote in 1924.
What is the American Indian Citizenship Act.
100
Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west. Many believed this fulfilled America's "Manifest Destiny": occupying land from east to west (Atlantic to Pacific).
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
200
Leaders of political machines that bribed citizens in order to receive votes for their parties.
What are Political Bosses
200
A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety.
What is a Tenement
200
Entrepreneur that made a monopoly in oil industry with his company, Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
200
(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
200
Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans.
What are reservations
300
A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities. LED TO SKYSCRAPERS AND THE GROWTH OF CITIES.
What is the Bessemer Process
300
Movement towards cities (esp. in the United States during industrialization. People moved to find jobs/work in factories).
What is Urbanization
300
A worker association that bargains with employers over wages, benefits, and working conditions.
What is a Union
300
1887, dismantled American Indian tribes, set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres, tried to make rugged individualists out of the Indians, attempt to assimilate the Native Americans into "American" lifestyle.
What is the Dawes Act
300
Things that cause people to want to move to a place (Employment opportunities, greater freedom, better schools, etc.). Things that cause people to want to leave a place (persecution, war, unrest, bad schools, etc.).
What are Push and Pull Factors
400
A powerful political organization that controlled a town through corrupt measures. Leaders are called political "bosses" (ex: Boss Tweed).
What is a Political Machine
400
A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
400
Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more loyal citizens
What is Americanization
400
A zone where no state exercises complete control. It is either uninhabited or sparsely inhabited. Many Americans started venturing into the western frontier during westward expansion in the 1800's.
What is the Frontier
400
1850 to 1890; series of conflicts between the US Army/settlers and different Native American tribes.
What are the Indian Wars
500
1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought better wages, hrs, working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent.
What is the American Federation of Labor
500
Americans who opposed immigration and feared that immigrants would change the American way of life.
What are Nativists
500
An economic system in which people are free to operate their businesses as they see fit, with little government interference (laissez-faire - hands off). (also capitalist economy/free market economy)
What is the Free Enterprise System
500
A mostly flat and grassy region of western North America.
What is the Great Plains
500
1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
What is the Homestead Act