Urbanization
America's largest city at the turn of the 20th C
What is New York City?
Andrew Carnegie made much of his fortune in this industry
What is steel?
The thing labor most wanted...
What is more $$$$$$$$$$$$$?
The great immigration processing center on the east coast
What is Ellis Island?
Mark Twain's nickname for this time period
What is the Gilded Age?
Incandescent lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
Most people move to cities in search of......
What is JOBS?
John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in this industry
What is oil (Standard Oil)?
The organization that represented organized labor as collective bargaining
What is a Union?
Undesirable factors in the home country that make an immigrant decide to leave
What are push factors?
The RR that spanned the continent from E to W
What is the Transcontinental RR?
Telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Overcrowded, multi-family apartments in cities that were often characterized by poor sanitation, run down facilities, and poverty were known as
What are tenements?
Henry Ford employed this concept in his factories to increase productivity
What is the assembly line?
A labor tactic where everyone pickets and refuses to work to get their demands
What is a strike?
Most immigrants coming to America at the turn of the 20th C came from this region of the world (region or countries)
What is S/E Europe? What is Italy, Russia, Romania, Austria/Hungary?
When a businessman is able to buy out all competition and control an entire market, it is known as....
What is a monopoly?
Telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
Neighborhoods like "Little Italy," or "China Town," are examples of
What are ethic enclaves?
If wealthy capitalists gave money to charity it was referred to as this term
What is philanthropy?
Someone who breaks the picket line and works is seen as this by other workers
What is a scab?
The process by which an immigrant becomes fully enmeshed in their new culture
What is assimilation?
This movement, led by Jane Addams, sought to apply Christian principles to help the urban poor
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
Airplane
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
Urban planner/architect who wanted to create natural, recreational areas in cities - places for escape
Who is Frederick Olmsted?
This process/invention converted iron into steel
What is the Bessemer Converter?
Name one of two immigrant groups that completed much of the work of the transcontiental RR
Who are the Chinese and the Irish?
What is Angel Island?
Photographer who took pictures of the urban poor to "show how the other half lived"
Who is Jacob Riis?
Cities were able to build up, and down because of these two inventions
What are skyscrapers (elevators) and subway systems?