People
Designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company.
George Pullman
Was a manufacturer of railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.
Pullman, IL/Pullman Factory
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.
Social Darwinism
The first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
Chinese exclusion act
Led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest people in history.
Andrew Carnegie
New York City political organization founded in 1786 that became the main local political machine of the Democratic Party
Tammany Hall
A joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad.
Credit Mobilier
An informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties.
gentleman agreement
His wealth soared as gasoline grew in importance, and he became the richest person in the country, controlling 90% of all oil in the United States at his peak.
John Rockefeller
Area for immigrants to pass through before entering the US
Angel Island
A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
Interstate Commerce Act
The population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
urbanization
American financier and industrial organizer, one of the world’s foremost financial figures during the two pre-World War I decades. He reorganized several major railroads and financed industrial consolidations that formed the United States Steel, International Harvester, and General Electric corporations.
JP Morgan
Area for immigrants to pass through before entering the US
Ellis Island
The first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
Sheman Anti-Trust Act
A party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives—money, political jobs—and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity.
Political machine
American inventor and businessman-He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. Invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb.
Thomas Edison
The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.
Vertical Integration
A five- to seven-story multiple dwelling unit in urban areas
Dumbbell tenement