Immigrants
Which immigrant group settled on the west coast
Chinese
US Had natural resources
natural resources
This legal entity, separate from its owners, offers limited liability to shareholders and can sell stock to raise capital.
Corporation
This 1886 Chicago protest for an 8-hour workday turned deadly after a dynamite bomb was thrown into a crowd of police officers in Haymarket Square.
Haymarket Bombing
In the classic 1966 animated TV special, Linus van Pelt spends all night waiting in a pumpkin patch for this mythical figure to appear
Great Pumpkin
Which immigrant group was mostly in the midwest?
Scandinvian immigrants
Workers
There were many people here and immigrating to the US to work
When a company controls every stage of production—from extracting raw materials to manufacturing and shipping—it uses this strategy.
vertical integration
President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to break up this 1894 railroad strike under the justification that strikers were interfering with the delivery of U.S. mail.
Pullman Strike
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy played the witchy Sanderson Sisters in this cult-classic 1993 Disney Halloween movie.
Hocus Pocus
Why did Italian immigrants settle in NYC instead of the midwest?
They lacked the financial capital to purchase land and equipment
The federal government created high tariffs to protect US business.
John D. Rockefeller used this strategy when Standard Oil bought up competing oil refineries to dominate a single step of the supply chain.
horizontal integration
Following the violence at Haymarket Square, public membership sharply declined for this early labor union as public opinion increasingly associated labor activism with radicalism and violence.
Knights of Labor
Every October, this long-running animated sitcom airs a specialized Halloween installment titled "Treehouse of Horror."
Simpsons
This group was excluded by an official act of congress
Chinese
The federal government used the army to remove Native Americans from their land
More land for expansion
When a single company gains complete control over an entire industry or product market, eliminating all competition, it forms this.
monopoly
This strike involved Carnegie Steel
The Homestead Strike
John Carpenter composed the iconic, chilling 5/4 time signature synthesizer theme for this 1978 slasher film featuring Michael Myers.
Halloween
Worked as peddlers in NYC pushing carts and selling goods
Jewish or Italian
The railroad!
The US invested in the transcontinental Railroad.
Pioneered in the Gilded Age, this organizational arrangement combines rival companies under a single board of trustees to bypass anti-monopoly laws.
trust
Founder and leader of the American Railway Union, this labor leader was sentenced to six months in prison for his role in organizing the nationwide Pullman boycott.
Eugene Debs
In 1983, Vincent Price provided the ominous closing voiceover narration for this iconic Michael Jackson music video featuring dancing zombies.
Thriller