Industrialist
Invented an inexpensive process for making steel
Who is Bessemer
Unsanitary housing where many immigrants lived in one room.
What were tenements?
Railroad that connected America coast to coast.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
This was the primary immigrant group that helped build the RR from the East Coast going west
Who were the Irish
State where they gave land away by landrun
What is Oklahoma
Created a monopoly in the oil business
Who is Rockefeller
This invention by Otis allowed for skyscrapers to be built.
What were elevators?
President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Who were the Chinese?
Indians were moved on to these
What were reservations?
Founded a college in Tennessee
Who is Vanderbilt
Name given to businessmen who had unethical business practices
What were Robber Barons?
I invented the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
This banned Chinese from immigrating to America
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The intentional termination of these lead to an end Indian nomadic life
What are Buffalo?
Made a fortune in the steel business
Who is Carnegie
A name for Millionaires who gave away money to public causes. Libraries, hospitals, etc.
Who were philanthropist?
Me & my men were all killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn
Who is George Armstrong Custer?
This was the migration north of millions of black people following the Civil War
What was The Great Migration?
This Act gave away 160 acres of land to settlers in the central part of the U.S.
What was the Homestead Act?
This banker helped pull the U.S. out of a depression. His company is still in business today.
Who is J.P. Morgan
Invented the telephone
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
When a single company controls the market on a product or product line.
What is a monopoly?
Political jobs held by Mike Kelley and Mr. Burk in the movie Far & Away
What were the Ward Boss & City Councilmen?
These two explorers mapped the Louisiana Purchase as far as modern day California
Who is Lewis & Clark?