MISC
This innovation made the production of steel more economical.
What is the Bessemer Process
This contributed to westward expansion by the cutting the trip from the east to west coast down from 6 months to a little as 10 days.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Andrew Carnegie formed what company
What is Carnegie Steel
John D. Rockefeller formed what company
What is Standard Oil
A company that has complete control over the supply of a product or service.
What is a monopoly
This is a person or small group who starts a business in the hopes of making a profit.
What is a entrepreneur
These were formed to obtain better hours, wages and working conditions for workers.
What are Labor Unions
The growth of cities due to movement from the countryside to cities.
What is Urbanization
Single room apartments often without lighting, heating and proper plumbing.
What are tenements
The process that immigrants went through in which they learned to dress, speak and act like other Americans.
What is Americanization
Acts of charity such as building libraries and giving money towards education and universities.
What is philanthropy
These corrupt people often ran city governments and provided jobs and other services to immigrants in exchange for their votes.
What are political machines/political bosses
This act restricted immigration from China to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
This acted contributed to westward expansion by offering 160 of land out west to settlers.
What is the Homestead Act
The growth of factories and industry
What is industrialization
This act prohibited unfair practices by railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act.
During this strike of workers in Chicago, a bomb exploded killing 7 police officers and severely wounding 67 others. Labor leaders were blamed.
What is the Haymarket Affair of 1886
This act moved Native Americans onto reservations and striped many of their culture.
What is the Dawes Act
In this book written by Andrew Carnegie, he states that the rich should give to the poor through acts of charity.
What is the Gospel of Wealth
Carnegie and Rockefeller were called _______ __ ________ because they forged the modern industrial economy but their critics called them _______ ________ because they destroyed competition and kept their workers wages low.
What is Captains of Industry; Robber Barons
This type of business organization was created during the Gilded Age and issued shares to investors which made each shareholder a partial owner.
What is a corporation
The idea that our government should have a "hands-off" approach in operation of our economy.
What is Laissez-Faire
The purpose of this act was to prevent monopolies from engaging in unfair practices that prevented fair competition.
This was an anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner feeling in which people born in America (particularly white) believed that they were superior to people of other races, ethnicities and nationalities.
What is Nativism
This act gave U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States.
What is the American Indian Citizenship Act