The Men Who Built America
This man is best known for inventing the telephone in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell
This refers to the growth of cities.
Urbanization
This term refers to an economic system where business are owned by the community and not individuals.
Socialism
Established in 1886, this union was by Samuel Gompers to oppose the Knights of Labor.
American Federation of Labor
This man was a leader of the Democratic party in New York City. He earned his fortune by requiring payments from business owners in the city. He was also known for “fixing” elections unfairly in the direction of favored candidates.
Boss Tweed
This refers to the process of allowing a foreigner to become a citizen of a country.
Naturalization
This man was a famous industrialist of the Gilded Age who worked his way up and founded a famous Steel Corporation, Late in life, he sold it and donated his money to build libraries, universities, and hospitals.
Andrew Carnegie
This is a group of corporations that unite to reduce competition and control prices in a business or industry.
Trust
This term mean that the government should keeps its “hands off” businesses and not regulate any business practices.
Laissez-Faire
This is a term that refers to nonunion workers that are hired to replace striking workers.
Scabs
He wrote the book How the Other Half Lives. This book documented the lives of those who lived in tenement houses.
Jacob Riis
This is an island located off the cost of New York City. Between the years 1892 and 1954, it served as an immigration center for eastern immigrants.
Ellis Island
This man was the founder of the Motor Company and he developed the assembly line system of mass production. He was also well known for promoting racist and antisemitic ideas.
Henry Ford
Those who believe in a society that has no government or rulers.
Anarchy
This means to gain an advantage through the unfair use of political power or influence. Typically, this involved funds meant for public use stolen by private individuals.
Graft
Established in 1893, this union was created by Eugene Debs to support railroad workers.
American Railway Union
He was a photographer who was known for his work documenting child laborers.
Lewis Hines
This island is located in San Francisco Bay. Between the years of 1910 and 1940, it served as an immigration center for western immigrants. Many immigrants were detained for weeks in difficult conditions. Many were deported and not allowed to enter the United States.
Angel Island
This man was a famous industrialist of the Gilded Age who founded Standard Oil, a corporation that took over 90% of the nation’s oil supply. He would use some of his fortune to support educational, religious, and scientific causes.
John D. Rockefeller
This refers to someone who wants drastic political, economic and social change.
Radical
This involves the process by which one company might take over different stages of the production of a product.
Vertical Integration
This strike was the result of a series of actions taken by the Carnegie Steel Corporation. The leadership had cut wages, raised rents, and tried to hire non-union workers.
The Homestead Strike
This is an organization linked to a political party that controlled the local government.
Political Machine
Passed by Congress in 1882, this act prevented most immigration from China.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This man was an inventor who was best known for his contributions to the development of alternating current. Alternating current is the common form of electricity used to deliver power to homes and businesses.
Nikola Tesla
This is a company that controls all of the production and sales of a specific good or services.
Monopoly
On May 4th, 1886, a bomb was thrown after policeman began to break up a rally of labor activists. The police shot into the crowd and killed several police officers and protestors. The Knights of Labor were blamed for the attack and the union fell apart.
The Haymarket Bombing
A labor organization that fought fought for the rights of all kinds of workers, including skilled and unskilled workers, women and men, and black and white workers.
The Knights of Labor
This was the main political machine of the Democratic Party in New York City, and it played a major role in controlling the city and supporting Irish immigrants from the mid-1800s to the 1960s.
Tammany Hall
In 1907, the Japanese government voluntarily ended Japanese immigration in order to allow Japanese children in San Francisco to attend integrated schools.
The Gentleman's Agreement