People
Who created the New York Central Railroad?
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Immigrants of this nationality came in such large numbers that they are considered the greatest movement of a single nationality in recorded world history (think of Staten Island)
What is Italian?
These organizations formed to protect workers' wages, hours of labor, and working conditions.
What are Unions?
this business technique buys out suppliers to control materials
What is vertical integration?
This economic policy allowed for big business to expand to monstrous sizes due to lack of government intervention.
What is Lassiez-Faire?
Before his death he donated more than $350 million dollars to public foundations. Remembering the difficulty of finding suitable books as a youth, he helped build three thousand libraries.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This federal government immigrant processing center opened in 1892 and is located in the New York Harbor
What is Ellis Island?
One of the most the violent strikes in American History caused by harsh conditions the Carnegie steel workers faced.
What is the Homestead Steel Strike?
These people came from Eastern and Southern Europe and were from Russia, Poland and Italy.
What are new immigrants?
This disease spread rapidly spread through tenement houses killing many children with a bacterial disease that affects your lungs.
What is tuberculosis?
He was believed to head a money trust that controlled the banking industry and was commonly considered a figurehead of Wall Street. He also created a monopoly by slashing the workforce and their pay to maximize profits while eliminating the competition.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
The second wave of immigration in the late nineteenth century consisted of immigrants that came from these regions of Europe
What are Eastern Europe and Southern Europe?
This strike occurred as a result of George Pullman cutting him employees wages by 30% in Chicago.
What is the The Pullman Strike?
Chicago settlement house founded by progressive reformer Jane Adams in Chicago in 1889
What is the Hull House?
This man was responsible for stealing $200 million in taxpayer funds. He would also give bribes to voters to vote for certain politicians.
Who is William (Boss) Tweed?
Who is known as " the commodore"?
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
These immigrants came from across the Pacific Ocean and dominated the West Coast of America
What are Asian Immigrants?
A federal law that was meant to regulate the railroad industry between states by limiting the unreasonable and inconstant rates made by big businesses.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Many of the newly rich had worked from poverty to wealth, and thus felt that some people in the world were destined to become rich and then help society with their money. What ideology justified this?
What is the “Gospel of Wealth?
This was the belief of protecting the interests of the native-born Americans and caused the discrimination against immigrants in the work place.
What is Nativism?
He believed that well-paid workers would be happier and more efficient. For that reason, he instituted a $5-a-day pay rate, which was twice as much as other auto manufacturers paid?
Who is Henry Ford?
This federal law passed in 1882 prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers and prevented those already in the country from becoming citizens
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Led by Terence Powderly, this organization created the Declaration of Principles in which they laid out 22 declarations for labor reforms.
What are the Knights of Labor?
Movement led by Washington Gladden - taught religion and human dignity would help the poor over come problems of industrialization.
What is the Social Gospel?
This man wrote the book How the Other Half Lives in which he showed the harsh living conditions the urban poor faced.