Tech & Westward Expansion
What allowed for faster production of steel?
What are the three things that EVERY labor union fought for?
What are better wages, hours, and working conditions?
On what island and state did Asian immigrants first arrive in America?
What is Angel Island in California?
What was the name of John D. Rockefeller's business?
What is the Standard Oil Company?
What philosophy supported the phrase "survival of the fittest"?
What is Social Darwinism?
Fill in the Blank: Railroads helped the United States expand to the _____.
What is the West?
What are the two things that SOME labor unions fought against for workers?
*Must provide both for points.
What are child labor and unequal pay for women?
This law banned entry to the U.S. for all Chinese except those who were U.S. citizens or had children/a spouse that was a U.S. citizen.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service?
What is a monopoly?
What is the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes?
What is philathropy?
What are the four major industries that fueled the beginning of the American Industrial Revolution?
What are Railroads, Oil, Steel, and Electricity?
Many argue that this economic system is what ultimately led to the creation of labor unions.
Cities grow due to what two reasons?
What is immigration and migration?
Fill in the Blank: The Gilded Age helped lay the foundation for reforms in the ___________ __________
What is the Progressive Era?
Name three of the four Robber Barons from this time period
+100 for naming each industry
Who were Andrew Carnegie (Steel), John D. Rockefeller (Oil), Cornelius Vanderbilt (Railroads), and/or JP Morgan (Banking/Finance)?
Fill in the Blank: The Dawes Act aimed to _________ Native Americans by dividing their communal lands into individual plots.
What is assimilate?
Terrence Powderly was the leader of what labor union?
What is the Knights of Labor?
Name a reason for Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is The Gold Rush in California, Work on the Transcontinental Railroad, Work in the coal mines, To escape dangerous conditions in China?
Corporations used what to increase profits?
What are mergers?
What philosophy did Andrew Carnegie create?
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
What law gave states land to sell, with the money used to create agricultural and technical colleges?
What is the Morrill Land-Grant Act?
Name TWO of the infamous labor strikes.
What is the Haymarket Riot, Pullmak Strike, or Homestead Steel Strike?
What two countries were responsible for creating dangerous conditions in China, and encouraging citizens to move to the US?
*Must get both correct to get points!
What is Great Britain and Japan?
Fill in the Blank: Companies like Carnegie Steel used _______ _______ to buy companies to gain materials needed to make or deliver their products
What is vertical integration?
What did Social Darwinism and the Gospel of Wealth justify?
What is laissez faire capitalism?