Big Business Basics
A business owned by many people who purchase shares of stock.
What is a corporation?
This 1882 law banned Chinese immigration and specifically targeted Chinese workers.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Workers during the Gilded Age commonly faced long hours, low wages, dangerous machinery, and very few of these.
What are safety protections?
These connected farms, towns, cities, and markets and became known as the backbone of American industry.
What are railroads?
Poverty, famine, persecution, and political unrest are examples of this type of factor that causes people to leave their homeland.
What is a push factor?
This exists when one company controls nearly an entire industry and has little or no competition.
What is a monopoly?
This reformer used writing and photography to expose poor living conditions in American cities.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This union accepted many different types of workers and supported an eight-hour workday and an end to child labor.
What are the Knights of Labor?
This major railroad project was completed in 1869 and connected the eastern and western United States.
What is the First Transcontinental Railroad?
After the 1880s, many of these immigrants arrived from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Who were the New Immigrants?
A group of companies controlled by one board of directors and operating almost like one giant company.
What is a trust?
Jane Addams founded this Chicago settlement house to help immigrants and poor families.
What is Hull House?
This 1886 Chicago labor rally became violent after someone threw a bomb.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This inventor is connected with the telegraph and the code used to send messages.
Who is Samuel Morse?
This immigration station in New York mainly processed European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This negative term described wealthy business leaders accused of using ruthless or unfair methods to become rich.
What is a Robber Baron?
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst became associated with this sensational style of newspaper reporting.
What is yellow journalism?
This 1892 strike involved Carnegie Steel, Henry Clay Frick, wage cuts, and Pinkerton guards.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This inventor developed the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This immigration station mainly processed Asian immigrants and was known for longer detention and harsher questioning.
What is Angel Island?
Passed in 1890, this federal law attempted to limit monopolies and combinations that restrained trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The spread of department stores, entertainment, newspapers, consumer goods, and shared experiences across the country helped create this.
What is mass culture?
During this 1894 strike, workers had their wages cut while company-owned rents and prices remained high.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This process allowed steel to be produced more cheaply and quickly.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This term describes anti-immigrant attitudes and the belief that native-born Americans should receive preference.
What is nativism?