Second Industrial Revolution
This air-blasting technique revolutionized mass steel production by quickly purifying molten iron.
Bessemer Process
This industrialist boosted Florida's economy and tourism through luxury resorts and a major railway.
Henry Flagler
Job opportunities and hopes for a better life are examples of these factors drawing people into American cities.
Pull Factors
A bomb thrown at an 1886 Chicago protest turned public opinion against labor unions during this violent event.
Haymarket Riot
This African American journalist launched a lifelong crusade against lynching after buying a newspaper.
Ida B. Wells
Under this "hands-off" economic policy, government non-regulation fueled Gilded Age industrial growth.
Laissez-faire
Arriving mostly after the 1870s from Southern/Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America, this demographic faced harsh nativist discrimination.
New Immigrants
This movement aimed to assimilate immigrants into American society by teaching them English, history, and culture.
Americanization Movement
Led by Samuel Gompers, this major union restricted membership to skilled craft workers, focusing on basic "bread-and-butter" issues.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Legislation meant to segregate blacks and whites during the Gilded Age.
Jim Crow Laws
Carnegie used vertical integration in steel, but also advocated this philosophy urging the rich to donate their wealth.
Gospel of Wealth
Asian immigrants arriving on the West Coast were processed at this location.
Angel Island
These overcrowded, unsanitary apartment buildings housed multiple working-class immigrant families.
Tenement houses
This labor union was unique for welcoming skilled and unskilled workers, as well as women and African Americans.
Knights of Labor
This landmark 1896 Supreme Court decision established the legal doctrine of "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
Rockefeller controlled the oil industry and eliminated competitors using horizontal integration through this company.
Standard Oil
Poverty, political unrest, and religious persecution are examples of these factors driving people from their homelands.
Push Factors
These community centers provided housing, education, and services to urban poor and immigrants.
Settlement Houses
Nine strikers were killed when workers at Carnegie's steel plant struck over low pay, long hours, and poor conditions in this clash.
Homestead Strike
He urged African Americans to achieve equality through hard work, vocational education, and proving their economic worth.
Booker T. Washington
This industrialist transformed Florida's economy and tourism by building luxury resorts and a major railway.
Henry Flagler
This term describes native-born hostility toward immigrants over religious, skill, and cultural differences.
Nativism
Powered by overhead cables, the first electric streetcar system was introduced in this Southern city.
Richmond, Virginia
Federal troops halted national rail traffic after workers protested wage cuts at a palace car manufacturer in this 1894 strike.
Pullman Strike
He demanded immediate political and social equality for African Americans, arguing that voting rights were essential.
W.E.B Du Bois