Entrepreneurs & Innovators
Which invention did Alexander Graham Bell developed that made long-distance communication much easier?
Telephone
Labor unions would organize this form of protest in which members would stop working until they received better working conditions.
Strike
Immigrants often moved into small, one-room, multi-family apartments known as--
Tenements
Natives Americans often relied on this animal in their daily life.
Buffalo
Urbanization occurs when people shift from ___ areas to urban areas.
Rural
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company was considered a ___ for controlling 90% of the oil industry.
Monopoly
The government often sided with businesses over unions in the labor debate because they supported this type of "hands-off" economic policy.
Laissez-faire
When moving into the city, these often provided immigrants with jobs and places to live in exchange for votes.
Political machines
More people began to travel out West thanks to the establishment of this, which connected the East Coast to the West Coast.
Transcontinental Railroad
Large amounts of people moving into the cities as once led to this major problem.
Overcrowding
Some considered Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller "Captains of Industry" for helping build the modern American economy, but others referred to them as ____ for paying workers low wages.
Robber Barons.
What reforms did the Knights of Labor demand from businesses?
1. 8-hour work day.
2. Increased pay.
3. Safer working conditions
This term was used to describe those who viewed immigrants as inferior to American-born residents?
Nativism
In 1896, thousands of Americans headed to the Klondike River near Alaska in search for this precious metal.
Gold
The first settlement house, which provided services for newly arrived immigrants, was opened in Chicago by this woman.
Jane Addams
Bessemer Process
Business leaders used this theory, meaning "survival of the fittest," to justify their ruthless and unfair practices.
Social Darwinism
Most immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe practiced one of these 2 religions, which led to discrimination from Protestants.
This bill, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, granted 160 acres of free land to settlers in order to encourage Westward expansion.
Homestead Act
This invention made transportation easier in overcrowded cities and created new jobs for city workers.
Subway
This refers to entrepreneurs buying out their suppliers in order to control the raw materials and transportation systems.
Andrew Carnegie bought controlled the iron ore fields, ore freighters, and railroad lines.
Vertical integration.
Although the Knights of Labor supported equal pay for women and wanted to abolish child labor, they excluded these people from joining their union, fearing that they would be competition for jobs.
Immigrants
Signed in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act barred immigration from China and other East Asian countries. What reason did many laborers give to support this act?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
*This law* led to many Native American children getting sent off to Indian boarding schools in order to change their customs, the way they dressed, and the language they spoke, otherwise known as Americanization
The Dawes Act
This man led the the corrupt Tammany Hall political machine in New York.
Boss Tweed