Labor Unions
1869
What is the year the 1st important national labor union was created?
Who is Jay Gould?
My invention opened the way for worldwide communications
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
immigration process center on the East Coast primarily used by European immigrants
What is Ellis Island?
belief that natural born Americans should be favored
What is nativism?
What is manifest destiny?
Incluced men, women, all races, skilled, and unskilled workers
What is the Knights of Labor?
Thought to be the greatest inventor of the time
Who is Thomas Edison?
Financier and Investment Banker
Who is JP Morgan?
multifamily, crowded, and often unsantity housing
Interstate Commerce Act was created to
What is decrease excessive railroad rates?
result of monopolies and trusts
an organization of workers working for their mutual benefit
What is a labor union?
Ran for president as a socialist
Who is Eugene Debs?
owner of Standard Oil
Who is John Rockefeller?
describes the large wave of African-Americans who left the South after the Civil War, mostly moving to cities in the Northeast
What is the Great Migration?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
African Americans who moved west to claim Homestead Act land
Who are the exodusters?
led to the declining influence and public perception of the Knights of Labor
What is the Haymarket Affair?
head of American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Consolidated railroad lines to create the NY Central RR
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
legislation that restricted Chinese immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is Social Darwinism?
process that produced stronger steel cheaper and more efficiently
What is the Bessemer Process?
organized sleeping car porters
Who is J. Philip Randolph?
head of the United Mine Workers
Who is John Lewis?
created a company town
Who is George Pullman?
3 reasons cities expanded
What are skyscrapers, subways, and suspension bridges?
invention that allowed factories to move farther away from the rivers
What is alternating current?
reformers who pushed for environment remedies for urban planning advocated for more city parks and green spaces
What is City Beautiful?