The Revolution
Where were people moving during the industrial revolution?
Cities
The final spike of the transcontinental railroad was driven into the ground at?
Promontory Point, Utah
During the industrial revolution, critics called powerful industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller what?
Robber Barons
When the Cherokee were forced from their land in Georgia to travel west to Oklahoma, over 4,000 died from the extreme conditions. This became known as the:
"The recent alarming development and aggression of aggregated wealth, which, unless checked, will inevitably lead to the pauperization and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses, render it imperative, if we desire to enjoy the blessings of life, that a check should be placed upon its power . . . and a system adopted which will secure to the laborer the fruits of his toil. . . ."—Preamble to the Knights' Constitution, 1878
What group does this support?
Laborers
What was the first major factory industry to come out of the Industrial Revolution?
Textile Industry
The idea that America was foreordained to spread democracy and expand westward to the Pacific Ocean by “God’s Will” is called:
Manifest Destiny
The United States Government attempted to regulate big business through what?
That Sherman Antitrust Act
Which massacre marked the end of resistance for Native Americans?
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Homestead strike between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Carnegie Steel Company:
Left 17 dead and dozens injured
What two events led to the Industrial Revolution?
The Scientific and Agricultural Revolution
The race to complete the transcontinental railroad began in which two states?
California and Nebraska
J.P. Morgan began a company during the Industrial Revolution that still exists to this day. This key industry was:
Banking
Native Americans giving up their culture and way of life to conform to the dominant US culture was known as:
Assimilation
What do child labor, railroads strikes, socialism and the rise of labor unions all have in common?
They were all effects of the industrial revolution
What was an important effect of nineteenth-century industrialization on American society?
A lowering of prices of many manufactured commercial goods.
The transcontinental Railroad was built in what year?
1869
Vertical integration, a business strategy used by the steel king Andrew Carnegie, involves what?
Buying out the raw material producers and distributers which are necessary for manufacturing a final product
With the mass slaughter of the buffalo, the Plains Indians lost their main source of
Food
What did the Pullman Strike and the Homestead Strike have in common?
Violence occurred after wages were cut and talks failed
The Bessemer process allowed for this new Industrial phenomenon, to change the skyline of the big cities:
The Skyscraper
What did the Homestead Act promise?
Free land to those who were willing to move west
The recent merger of the telephone companies T-Mobile and Sprint could be considered what form of integration?
Horizontal Integration
This Native American tribe successfully assimilated and cooperated with President Jackson, even winning a Supreme Court judgement, but ultimately were forced off their lands and onto the Trail of Tears.
Cherokee
Why was the formation of labor unions an effect of U.S. Industrialization in the late 1800's?
Unions organized industrial workers to protest unsafe working conditions and long workdays