Business Strategies
This occurs when one company controls an entire industry with no competition
Monopoly
Jacob Riis and his book How the Other Half Lives, promoted what kind of ideology?
Progressivism
The first major group of immigrants came from what continent?
Europe (Eastern and Southern)
This age could be described using term because things looked great on the outside but not on the inside
Gilded Age
This technology allowed for goods to be transported across the land.
Trains, Railroads
This business strategy combines competing firms of the same business type into one corporation
Horizontal Integration
This book showed the negative side to industrialization, especially with the US meat industry.
The Jungle.
Assimilating immigrant children into American culture through schools is
Americanization
This act allowed for states to deny indigenous tribes land ownership as a group
Dawes Act
This invention allowed for communication across great distances using Morse code.
Telegraph
This business strategy is when a company owns all the different businesses it depends on for its operation
Vertical Integration
These groups formed when workers wanted to fight for better wages and working conditions
Labor Unions
Workers that could learn how to operate a machine at a factory with little training can be described as
Unskilled workers
Groups of politicians that wanted to use their influence to control elections and maintain wealth.
Political Machines
This revolution occurred when Americans began to buy and sell goods rather than make stuff themselves
Market Revolution
These people invested in new forms of industry and inventions to make a profit.
Entrepreneurs
Promoted helping others and political reform
Social Gospel
This rapid expansion of cities that resulted in overcrowding can be described as what process?
Urbanization
When the government was “hands off” and allowed for companies to do what they want.
Laissez-faire, Free-Enterprise
Andrew Carnegie invested in what process to mass produce steel
Bessemer Process
Natural Law that some believed resulted in the “Survival of the Fittest” in society
Social Darwinism
Someone who wanted to investigate social conditions and political reform could be described as
Muckraker
What was the Nativists opinion on immigration?
Would weaken unions and take American jobs
This group formed to end segregation and worked to ensure African American men could vote under the 15th amendment.
NAACP
This inventor came up with the lightbulb
Thomas Edison