Immigration
Largest Asian immigrant group
What are the Chinese?
Invented the telephone in 1876
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
An important event in California in 1849
What is the Gold Rush?
This movement sought to organize workers into unions and fight for better wages, hours, and working conditions
What is the labor movement?
This movement saw women gain more access to higher education and participate more actively in politics, influencing social and economic change in the late 19th century.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
This test was given to immigrants
What is a literacy test?
The technological breakthrough that launched the rise of heavy industry was the discovery of a new process for making large quantities of
What is steel?
Popular business in the grasslands of Texas
What is the cattle business?
The American Federation of Labor, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on organizing skilled workers and advocating for this type of bargaining with employers.
What is collective bargaining?
This social movement aimed to curb the power of big business, regulate industries like railroads, and address the economic inequalities of the Gilded Age.
What is the Progressive Era?
To increase their profits, landlords divided up inner-city housing into small, windowless rooms, which are called
What are tenement buildings/apartments?
Who is Thomas Edison?
The nation's first big business
What are railroads?
Worst outbreak of labor violence in the century during 1877
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
This period saw a significant influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, leading to increased urbanization and cultural diversity.
What is the New Immigration?
Negative factors from which people are fleeing and positive attractions of the adopted country are called
What are push and pull factors?
Replaced horse-drawn cars and cable cars
What are electric trolleys, elevated railroads, and subways?
In the United States, since the money supply was not growing as fast as the economy, each dollar became worth more, causing
What is deflation?
The Haymarket Affair, though not directly about labor organizing, was a catalyst for increased public scrutiny and anti-labor sentiment.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
The period from 1865 to 1898, marked by rapid industrialization and economic growth, but also social inequality and corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
The largest anti-Catholic organization of the 1890s was the
What is the American Protective Association?
Revolutionized life, especially in the cities, from how people worked to how they shopped.
What is Electric light/lightbulb?
Corporations in the late 19th century increasingly desired to do business in
What are Latin America and Asia?
Argued that raising wages would only increase the working population
What is the "iron law of wages?"
What is the Urbanization?