Terms to Know
Tall steel frame buildings.
What are skyscrapers?
Led by Samuel Gompers; is an organization that pushed for closed shops.
What is American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act?
This person invented the telephone.
What is Alexander Graham Bell?
A new way of merging businesses that did not violate the laws against owning other companies.
What is trust?
Founded by Henry Bowers; an organization that despised Catholics and foreigners, committing themselves to stop immigration.
What is American Protective Association?
First Federal law to regulate interstate commerce.
What is the Interstate commerce Act?
In 1875, this person opened a steel mill in Pittsburgh and was born in Scotland.
What is Andrew Carnegie?
Partial refunds.
What are rebates?
Organized by Denis Kearney (an Irish immigrant) in the 1870s to fight Chinese immigration; won seats in California’s legislature, making opposition to Chinese immigration a national issue.
What is Workingman’s Party of California?
An act signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that provided for the construction of the continental railroad by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies.
What is Pacific Railway Act?
An architect who contributed contributed to the design of Skyscrapers, who is also known as the “father of skyscraper”.
What is Louis Sullivan?
Dark and crowded multi-family apartments.
What are tenements?
The first nationwide industrial union created in the late 1870’s after the failure of the Great Railroad Strike .
What is the Knights of Labor?
This tariff lowered federal revenue and transformed the excess nation’s budget into a budget shortage.
What is The McKinley Tariff?
This person was a former boat captain that built the largest steamboat fleet in America.
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
A movement in art and literature that attempted to portray people realistically instead of idealizing them as romantic artists had done.
What is realism?
The first national association, established by Kelly O’Sullivan and Leonora O’Reilly, that was dedicated to promoting women’s labor issue.
What is the Women’s Trade Union League?
This tariff was passed by the Republicans that were left in control of Congress after the south seceded.
What is the Morrill Tariff?
Governor of California who later served as the United States senator after found Stanford University in 1885.
What is Leland Stanford?