Immagration
The Bell family emigrated to ______________ from Scotland in 1870.
Canada
Electric lights and motors allowed factories and businesses to run ______ hours a day.
24
___________ were a form of monopoly that occurred when companies came together to control the distribution and production of products.
Trusts
Money needed to set up or improve a business is known as ________.
Capital
By 1890, Morgan controlled _________ of all railroads in the United States.
1/6
Chicago's __________offered help to immigrants by providing support such as education, healthcare, and childcare.
Hull house
J. P. Morgan was the son of a wealthy banker from ________________.
London
____________ had the most obvious negative environmental impact during industrialization.
Mining
Vanderbilt started out in the ______ business
Shipping
How did Cornelius Vanderbilt create one of America’s first big corporation?
He consolidated 2 railways into 1
During the Gilded age, new immigrants to the United States largely came from what area of the world?
Southern and Eastern Europe
Edisons work with the what? in particular was transformational for the Gilded Age.
electric lighting
McKinley's campaign was known as the _____________ campaign.
Front porch
Standard oil company
The railroad industry was the first industry to produce ___________________.
Modern coporations
Between 1860 and 1920, the United States accepted ____________ million immigrants.
28
Edison invented the _________________.
incandescent lightbulb
The ______________ Movement was a movement that opposed the consumption of alcoholic beverages and lobbied to outlaw them.
temprance
Mechanization and industrialization meant that the need for manpower in rural areas _________, while the need _____________ in cities.
Decreased, increased
How long did the national railway grow
200,000
In 1886, the ______________ called for higher wages, shorter working hours, and better working conditions.
American Federation of labor
Who drilled an oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859?
Edwin Drake
What amendment made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol illegal?
18th
By 1882, Standard Oil Company controlled ______ of the oil refining industry of the entire country.
90%
Railroads allowed for a _____________________ to be created.
national market