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Industrialization
Monopolies
The Last Frontier
Urbanization and Reform
Immigration
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The transformation from an agrarian to a manufacturing economy

What is Industrialization?

100

Intelligent men who used technologies and inventions to create jobs and businesses

Who are Captains of Industry?

100

Land set aside for Native Americans

What is the Reservation System?

100

What led a population shift from rural to urban areas?

What is Industrialization?

100

A new form of housing in the city that housed many people and were often unsafe

What are Tenements?

200

Introduced the idea of mass production

Who is Henry Ford?

200

The growth of a large business is merely the survival of the fittest.

What is Social Darwinism?

200

The Pacific Railway Act subsidized the building of this

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

200

A hands off economy where business owners are free to make decisions about working conditions and wages

What is Laissez Faire Capitalism?

200

Where were immigrants settling in the United States?

What is Urban areas or the city?

300

Allowed for more production and economic growth

What is electricity or the light bulb?

300

Men who used ruthless methods to reach success, exploiting workers

Who are Robber Barons?

300

African Americans moving west to escape racism in the south

What are Exodusters?

300

Most were immigrants or in poverty and many families relied on them for extra income

What is Child Labor?

300

The belief that immigrants were intellectually inferior.

What is Nativism?

400
This oil tycoon used horizontal integration, holding companies, and trusts to gain control of 90% of the nation's oil market.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400

Made it illegal to form a monopoly or a trust?

What is the Sherman-Anti Trust Act?

400

In an attempt to force assimilation, the federal government outlawed the Ghost Dance, a sacred religious practice. When the Dakota Sioux continued the ritual the US army massacred 200 Indian men, women, and children at this so-called battle.

What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?

400

Organizations of workers fighting for better to working conditions

What are Labor Unions

400
A new stream of immigrants who began to arrive during the early 20th century from southern and eastern Europe.
What are "new immigrants"
500
Andrew Carnegie's use of this type business consolidation allowed a capitalist to control all aspects of the production process.
What is vertical integration?
500

A monopoly that involves multiple businesses that agree to combine forces and resources to control an industry.

What is a Trust?

500
After General Custer declared that gold had been found in the Black Hills of South Dakota, hordes of greedy gold-seekers swarmed into Sioux lands. The Sioux, along with the Cheyenne and the Arapaho, attacked and soundly defeated Custer at this battle in 1876.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
500

Court Case that made segregation legal in the South

What is Plessy vs. Ferguson

500
This law passed in 1882 closed the door on Chinese immigration for over 50 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?