Demographics
These newcomers entered the US in great numbers in the 1870s.
Who are immigrants from eastern and southern Europe?
The new method of producing strong, light-weight steel.
What is the Bessemer process?
This Chinese-American successfully established citizenship as a birthright using the 14th Amendment.
Who is Wong Kim Ark?
The business model that was geographically and economically expandable, had multiple owners and rights of a person.
What is a corporation?
The dislike of and discrimination against newer immigrants by people born in the U.S.
What is nativism?
This cultural and educational process attempted to change the cultures of new immigrants.
What is Americanization?
In these areas, clocks were synchronized to make railroad schedules more accurate.
What are time zones?
This tycoon first used horizontal integration to control the oil industry and then formed a trust when he couldn't buy out his competition in Ohio.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Low-cost, multi-family housing that were also used to produce piecework goods.
What are tenements?
The 1882 policy that stopped immigration by Chinese people and curtailed the rights of Chinese people already living in the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This was an example of epidemics common in urban areas because of crowded and unhygienic conditions.
What is cholera?
What is the national park system?
He founded the American Railway Union and later ran for President as a candidate of the American Socialist Party.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
Widespread shared cultural preferences in food, clothing, and gadgets.
What is mass culture?
Mass production facilities staffed mostly by women and children and targeted by reformers because of their low wages and poor working conditions.
What are sweatshops?
People during the Gilded Age enjoyed these medleys of musical dramas, songs, and comedies.
What is vaudeville?
Business owners of the Industrial era whose companies generated great amounts of profit, goods and services, and jobs.
What are "Captains of Industry?"
This inventor was credited with the invention of the lightbulb, among other things.
Who was Thomas Edison?
Residential areas outside cities made accessible by wealthier city workers because of new mass transit systems.
What are suburbs?
The process of groups of workers negotiating with their employers for changes in working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
This process resulted in more of the American population living in cities instead of rural regions.
What is urbanization?
New organizations of workers banding together to gain the strength to demand better working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This Hungarian immigrant revolutionized newspaper publishing with sensational coverage of corruption, politics, sports, and current events.
Who was Joseph Pulitzer?
An economic principle allowing businesses to operate under minimal government regulation.
What is laissez-faire?
The Chicago protest for an 8-hour workday that ended in violence and deaths and led to the end of the Knights of Labor union.
What is the Haymarket Riot?