Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse invented methods to harness and distribute this.
100
This law was passed to break up monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
100
This industrialist controlled the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
Iron and coal were found near this city, causing it to be the home of the steel industry.
What is Pittsburg, PA?
100
What region of the United States served as the port of entry for most immigrants ?
What is the Northeast?
200
These two inventions revolutionized communications in the late 1800s.
What are the telegraph and telephone
200
This describes when one businesses controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
200
This industrialist controlled the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
200
During this decade (ten year period), urban population first exceeded rural population.
What is 1910-1920
200
The new immigrants came mostly from these regions of Europe.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
300
This process made possible the construction of skyscrapers and the Brooklyn Bridge.
What is the Bessemer process?
300
In this business model, one company controls all aspects of a product's supply and distribution.
What is vertical integration?
300
Business owners were often called this because they used any means possible to increase thier profits.
What are "robber barons"?
300
This caused the growth of cities in the Western United States.
What is the growth of railroads?
300
This is the reason that immigration was not restricted before 1920.
What is because businesses needed a large pool of cheap labor for high profits.
400
The railroads impacted the United States in this way.
What promoted increased trade and interpendence in the United States?
400
Using this business models, one company gains control of all companies that make that product.
What is horozontal integration?
400
Andrew Carnegie used this business model to build his monopoly.
What is vertical consolidation?
400
What caused the population of American to nearly double in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
What is immigration?
400
This group of people lobbied for legislation to restric immigration.
Who are Nativists?
500
Railroads were necessary for the development of this industry?
What is the steel industry?
500
This is a point where two or more railroad lines meet.
What is a transfer point?
500
This philosophy states that only the fittest in society would be able to be succesfful in an industrial economoy, and the government should not interfer with this.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
This caused people to move off of farms and into cities.
What is new machinery casued the need for farm labor to decrease?
500
This is the main reason that some people lobbied for immigration restrictions in 1900s.
What is because they believed that immigrants were taking all the jobs.