Big Business
This term describes a business that has almost complete control over a market or good, such as oil or steel.
What is a monopoly?
While Slavs were characterized as stupid brutes, and Jews where characterized as greedy schemers, this European immigrant group was stereotyped as criminals and terrorists.
Who are the Italians?
The term used to describe when people move from small towns and rural areas into large cities.
What is Urbanization?
What is China?
The discovery of this resource in 1849 brought many people to California, especially San Francisco and the Sacramento River.
What is Gold?
This Pittsburgh businessman created the biggest steel company in the world, which J.P. Morgan bought out and renamed "U.S. Steel."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This famous island in New York City was the main place where immigrants from Europe were processed. They even got a good look at the Statue of Liberty from there.
What is Ellis Island?
A group of workers who come together to demand better wages or working conditions.
What is a labor union?
Commodore Matthew Perry used his "Black Ships" to bully this country into ending its isolation, and permit American ships to park in its harbors.
What is Japan?
This animal, which was extremely important to the Plains Indians, was killed in huge numbers by the U.S. Army to starve out Native Americans and force them unto reservations.
What are buffalo?
What are steel, oil, railroads, and banking?
Who are the "Old Immigrants?"
The term used to describe a mayor or city government that kept control through bribery.
What is a Political Machine?
Queen Lili'uokalani was the last leader of these islands in the Pacific Ocean, which were taken over by American sugarcane planters and annexed by President William McKinley.
What is Hawaii?
This Cleveland businessman founded Standard Oil, one of the biggest monopolies in the world, which controlled almost all the American oil supply.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
What are Robber Barons?
This immigrant group was specifically banned from the United States after the passage of the ________ Exclusion Act of 1882.
Who are the Chinese?
The leader of Tammany Hall, who controlled New York City while making himself rich through graft.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
The destruction of this ship in Havana Harbor led to the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This law encouraged people to settle in the West by promising 160 acres to anyone willing to move there.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This type of monopoly involves a company buying up the products that go into its manufacturing, like a steel mill buying up coal mines and iron mines.
What is Vertical Integration?
What is Nativism?
The first labor union that tried to organize all workers. It was ideological, and wanted to fight for changes to American capitalism.
What are the Knights of Labor?
The leader of the Filipinos during the Philippine-American War.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
This kind of monopoly involves a company buying up its competitors, like a steel mill buying up other steel mills.
What is Horizontal Integration?