Miscellaneous (misc.)
The movement that lasted from 1790s-1840s, and was led by Protestant revivalist preachers travelling on horseback from town to town, which also inspired various social reform movements
What is the Second Great Awakening
The machine Elias Howe invented in 1846 that revolutionizes how clothes are made in homes and factories.
What is a sewing machine?
A negative depiction of business tycoons like Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt.
The small, hot, dark and dirty workhouses that would employ children and families for the lowest possible wage.
What is a sweatshop?
A set of factors that disrupt a person's life, or group of people's lives, such that they are compelled to leave their homes including: war, famine, or persecution.
What are push factors?
The 1863 proposed plan for Reconstruction that revealed Lincoln's sympathy for the south following the Civil War.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
A grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
What is a patent?
The complete control of a product or service by a corporation.
What is a monopoly?
The housing and accommodations offered to workers, especially miners, employed in an isolated community and were run by the employers.
What is a company town?
The groups of people, that beginning in the 1870s, immigrated to the United States including those from southern and eastern Europe.
Who are the "new immigrants"?
The Civil War battle starting September 17, 1862 that despite ending in a stalemate, or having no clear winner, gave Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
The inventor, supported by wealthy industrialist like J.P. Morgan, who established a research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey and is credited with having over 1,000 patents.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The department created in 1887 that oversaw railroad operations that crossed state lines.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
The strategy of negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
The ironic belief that many held in fear as "native born" white Americans they are somehow superior to those non-native immigrants, white or not, and thus resulted in discrimination against immigrants.
What is nativism?
The belief that God wanted the United States to own all of North America
What is Manifest Destiny
Following the period of Reconstruction, the act Congress enacted to make imported goods cost more than those made locally to promote the success of American businesses.
What are protective tariffs?
The system of consolidating of many firms in the same business.
What is horizontal integration?
The May 11, 1894 response to wage cuts and worker layoffs for railroad workers that began in Chicago and quickly spread.
What is the Pullman Strike?
The programs that helped newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet.
What are Americanization programs?
The passionate Congressman from Pennsylvania, before the outbreak of the Civil War, that would not recognize the "right of slavery" that so many southerners did even in his death.
Who is Thadeus Stevens
The first federal response to the soil erosion and dust storms in the Midwest that intended to help preserve and protect the land.
What was the creation of Yellowstone Park in 1872?
A successful oil businessman who skirted policies in place to avoid monopolies from forming and made deals with railroads to increase his profits.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private, control of property and income and those that prescribe to this philosophy believe that society at large, not just private individuals, should take charge of a nation's wealth.
What is socialism?
The place where the following poem was inspired written:
"Lin, upon arriving in America,
Was arrested, put in a wooden building,
And made prisoner.
I was here for one autumn.
The Americans did not allow me to land.
I was ordered to be deported."
Where is Angel Island?