Businessmen
Known for reorganizing businesses to make them more profitable and stable and gaining control of them.
J.P. Morgan
The first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel.
Bessemer Process
For ages, people used the sun to determine what time it was where they were. ... On November 18, 1883, America's railroads began using a standard time system.
Railroad Time (Time Zones)
A violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
Haymarket Affair
A policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants.
Nativism
A British-born American cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.
Samuel Gompers
A train route across the United States that was finished in 1869.
Transcontinental Railroad
A loose amalgamation of skilled craft unions, in contrast to other unions that admitted unskilled laborers.
American Federation of Labor
fatal conflagration that occurred on the evening of March 25, 1911, in New York City.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
A factory that violates 2 or more labor laws.
Sweatshop
A Scottish-born American inventor and scientist was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Alexander Graham Bell
An association of workers formed to negotiate collectively with an employer to protect and further workers' rights and interests.
Labor Union
The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
Urbanization
A law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration.
Chinese Exclusion Act
A violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in 1892.
Homestead Strike
From 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.
Mary Harris Jones
Occurs when a business expands its control over other similar or closely related businesses.
Horizontal/Vertical Integration
The act of voluntary giving by individuals or groups to promote the common good.
Philanthropy
Located in San Francisco Bay, an Immigration Station served as the main immigration facility.
Ellis Island/Angel Island
A federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Founder of the Standard Oil Company, became one of the world's wealthiest men and a major philanthropist.
John D. Rockefeller
A loose set of ideologies that emerged in the late 1800s
Social Darwinism
A metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture.
Melting Pot
Urban dwellings occupied by impoverished families.
Tenement
An American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist.
Andrew Carnegie