Industrial Expansion
examples would be timber, iron ore, oil, and coal
Abundance of Natural Resources
A business owned by one person
Proprietorship
an organization that was created by public officials to maintain and extend their power in the cities
political machines
The union pacific and central pacific companies completed this in 1869
Transcontinental Railroad
a type of journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates events in order to attract readers
Yellow Journalism
a high birthrate and a large number of immigrants led to this
Surplus of Workers
Andrew Carnegie owned all aspects of the steel production process and bought up his competitors in forming this company
US Steel
immigrants settled in these locations of the major cities due to the same language and heritage
ethnic neighborhoods
the implementation of railroads led from a change of over one hundred of these to only four in the United States
time zones
a policy of allowing customers to purchase items by paying for it over several months
Installment Buying
foreign investors and the gold and silver wealth from the west supplied this
Capital Investment
a business owned by a small group
Partnership
immigrants from North and west Europe that were protestant and settled as farmers in the midwest
Old immigrantion
the two main ethnic group of immigrants that built the transcontinental railroad
Chinese and Irish
1907 act that greatly restricted Japanese immigration into the united States
Gentelmen's Agreement
New ideas and techniques created because of a profit motive
Inventions
The owner of standard oil company that would sell oil for less than it cost him to produce
John D. Rockefeller
many Americans believed that immigrants took American jobs and kept these low
Wages
examples would be New York’s subway and
San Francisco’s cable cars
Mass Transit
the feeling of hostility towards foreigners from native-born Americans
Nativism
the most important innovation created steel cheaper, quicker, and more efficient with this method
Bessemer Process
A business chartered by a state and owned by shareholding investors
Corporation
immigrants from south and east Europe that were catholic and jewish
New Immigration
Who gave the railroad companies land to build railroads on out West
Federal Government
negotiations between labor union representatives and management.
Collective Bargaining