Fueling the Growth
Trade was eased across the nation first through canals, and later through this major rail network.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Translating to "hands off big business," this policy argued that government should not make regulations for business.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
Huge groups of companies with massive capital that grew to dominate industries were known as these.
Monopolies
Suffering workers formed these organizations to combine their strength and fight bosses for better conditions.
What are labor unions?
Most industrial workers were "new immigrants" hailing from these two European regions.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
These two new sources of energy made new kinds of factory production possible during late 19th-century industrialization.
What are oil and electricity?
Also known as "survival of the fittest," this idea claimed rich people deserved their wealth while blaming the poor for their own poverty
What is Social Darwinism?
Along with John D. Rockefeller, this steel giant was one of the premier business leaders of the Gilded Age.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This March 1911 disaster resulted in the deaths of 146 garment workers and exposed severe workplace safety hazards
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
"Old immigrants," who held distinct cultural differences from "new immigrants," mostly originated from these two European regions.
What are Northern and Western Europe?
Long-distance communication became much faster and easier thanks to this invention, which was later followed by the telephone.
What is the telegraph?
This term describes prejudice against immigrants, which was heavily experienced by incoming factory workers.
What is nativism?
Critics applied this negative title to corporate leaders who relied on unfair business practices.
What are robber barons?
Formed in the 1890s, this third political party—also called The People's Party—rose to promote the interests of farmers
What is the Populist Party (or The People's Party)?
Chinese immigrants performed dangerous, low-paying work helping construct this crucial transportation link.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Industry's massive need for labor was fed by this government stance toward newcomers entering the country
What is an open immigration policy?
This term refers to the constitutional right to vote.
What is suffrage?
Supporters applied this positive title to business leaders who built great wealth while driving industrial expansion.
What are captains of industry?
Farmers joined the Populist movement largely because they were financially harmed by corrupt banking practices and monopolies in this industry.
What are railroad monopolies?
Enacted in 1882, this law became one of the earliest examples of explicitly racist anti-immigrant legislation.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
An agricultural revolution produced much more food, driving a rapid increase in this, which in turn strengthened economic demand.
What is the US population?
The philosophy of Social Darwinism was primarily used by the wealthy class to justify these large societal divides.
What are economic inequalities?
When separate business entities banded together under unified control, they formed these organizational combinations.
Trust
The tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory demonstrated that industrial leaders cared far more about this than worker safety
What is profit or money?
Nativists pushed for the Chinese Exclusion Act primarily due to their fear that Chinese immigrants were doing this.
What is taking jobs away from the working class?