Captains of Industry
A person ho invests their time, money and skills on the possibility of making profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
The process of agrarian economy turning into machines based economy
What is Industrialization?
Long hours, boring and Repetitive Tasks, Low Wages, Dangerous Conditions, and Child Labor.
What is the term for the process of a population shifting from rural areas to cities and the resulting growth and development of urban areas?
Urbanization
refers to the act of people moving to a foreign place with the goal of settling there
What is Immigration?
Large companies that control industries giving them the power to control prices and production of goods and services they provide.
What is Monopoly?
An inexpensive way that allowed mass production of steel
What is Bessemer process?
The process by which employees and management negotiate wages, working conditions, and work hours.
What was Collective Bargaining?
A system where people are grouped into different classes based on wealth, jobs, and social status, leading to unequal access to resources and opportunities.
What is a “Class System”?
It was the primary point of entry for a large number of immigrants. Imprisoned immigrants, frequently putting them through tough questioning and long detentions, mostly in an effort to limit the number of Chinese immigrants allowed entrance.
What is Angel Island?
Built the Florida East Coast Railroad
Who is Henry Flagler?
The first continuous railroad that goes from western United states to the east
What is Transcontinental railroad?
The cause and goals were to end child labor, Equal opportunity and wages for women, and Eight-hour workdays.
What were the causes and goals of The Knights of Labor?
What invention by John Deere revolutionized agriculture in the 19th century by improving the efficiency of plowing and is often considered a significant advancement in farming technology?
John Deere’s steel plow
is a belief that the rights and interests of native-born people should take priority over those of immigrants or recent arrivals.
What is Nativism?
An act that was created to enforce the law which prohibits unfair practices by rail roads.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
The period of which human economy became a more stable and efficient manufacturing process & major industries like steel and oil advanced causing a change in society
What is the First Industrial Revolution & Second Industrial Revolution?
Improvements in working conditions, fair wages, and worker's rights helping to establish labor laws and regulations that protect employees.
How have labor movements impacted society?
What is the term for the process by which the influence of American culture, values, and practices spread and have an impact on other countries or region?
Americanization
was a federal law passed in the United States in 1882 and was the first significant law in the United States to restrict immigration based on a specific race or nationality.
What is The Chinese Exclusion Act?
A federal law that was made to stop monopolies and trusts from engaging in unfair practices.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust?
An economy where prices of products and services are chosen by the free price system (supply and demand)
What is market economy?
Its a day to celebrate and honor laborers and the labor movement. The date was chosen to commemorate the labor activist involved.
What is international worker's day and how is it related to the Haymarket Riot?
What innovation developed by Cyrus McCormick in the 1830s and 1840s transformed farming by automating the harvesting of crops, particularly wheat, and greatly increasing agricultural productivity?
Cyrus McCormick’s reaper
This agreement, which was reached between the US and Japan, was an effort to calm the growing tensions between the two nations over the immigration of Japanese laborers
What was the purpose of the gentlemen’s agreement?