Businessmen
In the early 1870's, he entered the steel business, and became a dominant force in the industry.
Who is J.P Morgan?
This person invented the first telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This object melts metal.
What is a Melting Pot?
This person is the founder of and the longest serving president of the American federation labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This oil tycoon from Ohio, started his company The Standard Oil Company in 1869.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
A big building with different residents living there.
What is a Tenement?
The process that allows a mass production of steel that is expensive and easy
What is the Bessemer Process?
The name of the federation that organized skilled workers into nation unions.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This law was made to prevent financiers who made fortunes by manipulating huge industries through the formation of trust, exploiting workers, and paying little heed to their customers of competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
In the 19th century during America's Gilded Age, they were often known as ruthless or unethical.
What are Robber Barons?
Where they made clothing and get paid but were over worked.
What is a Sweatshop?
Group of workers formed together to protect workers interests and rights.
What is a Labor Union?
The woman that helped with the coordinate.
Who is Mary Harris Jones?
Woman in the clothing industry asked for better pay hours and working conditions.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
He reorganized several major railroads and became a powerful railroad magnate.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Promoting an interest in a native inhabited and supporting immigration restriction measures.
What is Nativism?
A process of making a area more urban.
What is Urbanization?
Is an important leader in American advocated for world peace.
Who is Jane Addams?
In 1882 they stopped the Chinese from immigrating.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
From 1794-1877 was self made multi-millionaire who became one of the wealthiest Americans of the 19th century.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
East of mountain and pacific time.
What is Railroad Time (Time Zones)?
When you promote the welfare of other businesses with donations.
What is Philanthropy?
This subject is in which the same laws of natural selection as people came aware in plants and animals in nature.
What is Social Darwinism?
Is a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company.
What is the Homestead Strike?