A new industrial revolution
Allowed people to make steel at a lower cost
What is the bessemer process?
Long hours and low pay
What are workplace conditions?
The rapid growth of city populations
What is urbanization?
What is assimilation?
Wrote novel about unhappily married women.
Who is Kate Chopin?
Improvement for communication and used a code of dots and dashes
What is the telegraph?
Controlled steel industry
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Lived in fine homes on outskirts of the cities
Who are the rich?
Sought to preserve the US for native-born American citizens.
What are Nativists?
Offered free or low cost higher education.
What are state universities?
Carried people and goods west
What are trains?
Knights of Labor and AFL (American Federation of Labor)
What are early unions?
New types of buildings
What are skyscrapers and tenements?
Places where most immigrants were received.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
First modern mass-circulation newspaper.
What is New York World?
Introduced by Henry Ford to mass produce cars
What is the assembly line?
Consisted of a group of corporations run by a singular board of directors
What is a trust?
Many goods in one store
What is a department store?
Many Americans associated immigrants with these three traits.
What is violence, crime, and anarchy?
Writers who try to show life as it is.
What are realists?
Furnished lumber for building
Used profits from investing in an oil refinery to buy other oil companies
Who is Rockefeller?
Fires, bleak and crowded tenement life, streets littered with garbage, and poor sanitation.
What are problems of urban life?
An official document excluding Chinese laborers from the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
Offered lectures in a variety of subjects.
What is the Chautauqua Society?