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Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.

What is an Immigrant?

100
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;
What are tenements?
100

The transportation system that connected the East coast to the West coast.

What are Railroads?

100

The government is hands off of the economy.

What is Laissez Faire?

100

Strike that involved workers in a "company town" who's rent was raised.

What is the Pullman Strike?
200
New immigrants coming to America were encouraged to adapt to American culture, this process mostly happened in public schools.

What is the assimilation?

200

Buildings that were built upward instead of sideways. Cities could have large populations.

What are skyscrapers?

200

Owner of Standard Oil company

Who is John D. Rockefeller?

200

Write both answers in CORRECT ORDER!

- When a company purchases a competing company that offers the same product or service

- When a company purchases another company that does the process of manufacturing before or after them

What are Horizontal & Vertical Alignment?

200

Strike over railroad workers getting their wages cut three times, they blocked the railroads to protest.

What is the Great Strike of 1877? 

300

The places immigrants worked in & suffered from poor working conditions, long hours and bad pay.

What are Factories?

300

Process that allowed America to create steel faster & stronger. Allowed America to create more railroads & skyscrapers.

What is the Bessemer Process?

300

Owner of American railroad & shipping companies.

Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?

300

When several smaller companies have control over the entire supply of a product or service.

What is a trust?

300
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
400
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400

As factories started to expand and hire more workers, these organizations formed to get workers higher wages & safer working conditions by going on strikes.

What are labor unions?

400

Most famous of Industrial Age strikes, involved a bomb being thrown into a crowd of protestors. This strike gave us Labor Day.

What is the Haymarket Riot?

400

Political boss who bribed immigrants with jobs & housing.

Who is Boss Tweed?

400
Followers that believed they needed to help the poor to be given salvation.

What is the Social Gospel Movement?

500
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is nativism?
500
The growth of cities due to the influx of people?
What is Urbanization?
500

Author of the "Gospel Of Wealth" & owner of steel company.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

500
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are Political machines?
500

Strike involving Andrew Carnegie's steel company, skilled workers wages were slashed due to the hiring of unskilled immigrants.

What is the Homestead Strike?