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Head of the Standard Oil Company (Chevron) who used horizontal integration in his business.
John D. Rockefeller
Cheap apartment building from the late 19th-Century often crammed with immigrant families
Tenement
A late 19th-Century, early 20th-Century labor union which attracted anarchists and socialists to its ranks. Many of their strikes were violent.
The Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.)
A term historians use to describe the last decades of the 19th Century.
The Guilded Age
Made his fortunes through the steel industry and utilized vertical integration
Andrew Carnegie
He lost to Thomas Edison on whose version of electrical current would provide electricity for Americans
Nikola Tesla
Large open area beneath a ship's deck in which most immigrants traveled.
Steerage
This strike shut down commerce in the USA as 300,000 railroad workers went on strike in June 1894.
Pullman Strike
Author who always seemed to write the same story... poor/immigrant boy catches a big break, works hard, and goes from rags to riches.
Horatio Alger
A positive name given to industrialists who were seen to benefit the USA by providing jobs and products
Captains of Industry
This allowed steel to be manufactured cheaply and efficiently for the first time in history.
Bessemer Process
Favoring American born citizens against newly arrived immigrants
Natvism
A place where workers toiled long 12 hour days, 6 days a week. Typically hot, dark, and dirty.
Sweatshops
A way of describing someone who buys things to show off having, "the newest thing."
Conspicuous Consumerism
The name given to industrialists who were seen to harm the USA with their ways of doing business.
Robber Barons
Different companies combining their operation into a single unit.
Trust
Immigrant created organizations which provided services and solved problems in the local neighborhood
Fraternal Associations
Company Towns
A phenomenon which got started in the late-19th Century where many Americans consumed the same products and services- coast-to-coast
Mass Culture
A process during the late 1800s where farming families sent some members to cities in search of jobs
Rural-to-Urban Migration
Complete, total, control of a product or service.
Monopoly
Belief that all "new American" immigrant cultures would form a single American culture
The Melting Pot
The process where a union organized workforce attempts to negotiate for higher wages or better working conditions.
Collective Bargaining
Four forms of entertainment, popular at the late-19th Century.
Amusement parks, outdoor events (wild west shows), vaudeville shows, spectator Sports