Businessmen
An American business magnate who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. After working with his father's business, he worked his way into leadership positions in the inland water trade and invested in the rapidly growing railroad industry.
Who is.. Cornelius Vanderbilt
A type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access, on the British isles notably common in Scotland.
What is.. Tenement
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open-hearth furnace.
What is.. Bessemer Process
An organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals, such as protecting the integrity of their trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.
What is.. Labor union
The political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures.
What is.. Nativism
American cigar maker, the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor, and a key figure in American labor history.
Who is.. Samuel Gompers
The population shift from rural to urban areas, the decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
What is.. Urbanization
Public transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.
What is.. Mass Transit
An American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
Who is.. Eugene Debs
An industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. The battle was a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.
What is.. Homestead Strike
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. He also led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
Who is.. Andrew Carnegie
The various theories that emerged in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s which applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics, and politics.
What is.. Social Darwinism
Reduce combinations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. It outlaws both formal cartels and attempts to monopolize any part of commerce in the United States.
What is.. Sherman Antitrust Act
An Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.
Who is.. Mary Harris Jones
A United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
What is.. Chinese Exclusion Act
An American business magnate and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history.
Who is.. John D. Rockefeller
On November 18, 1883, America begins using a standard time system involving four time zones, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. Within each zone, all clocks were synchronized.
What is.. Railroad time (time zones)
An immigration center that welcomed large numbers of foreigners. On the West Coast of the United States, near the city of San Francisco, it was an important immigration center from 1910 to 1940.
What is.. Ellis & Angel Island
An American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace.
Who is.. Jane Addams
In the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.
What is.. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
An American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age.
Who is.. JP Morgan
A Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885.
Who is.. Alexander Gramham Bell
A 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
What is.. First Transcontinental Railroad
A national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.
What is.. American Federation of Labor
The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. Began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour workday, the day after police killed one and injured several workers.
What is..Haymarket Riot