Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
what are opportunist Northerners?
Business strategy in which a company takes ownership of two or more key stages of its supply chain
What is vertical integration?
Organization meant to help freed men achieve financial and political stability
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Regions from which the "new immigrants" originated from
What are Eastern and Southern Europe?
Coney Island
What was the first amusement park in the US?
term for when everyone wants the same new products on the market
what is conspicuous consumerism?
What is horizontal integration?
White supremacy group responsible for mobbing, lynching, and terrorism during the 19th century
What is the Klu Klux Klan?
term used to describe the trend of families flocking to the US
what is chain immigration?
The inventor of the Telephone
who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Moniker for the late 19th century
What was the Victorian Era?
Business owner known for low exceptionally low prices. Was paid to relocate as his monopoly put others out of business.
Laws which legally enabled racial segregation
What were Jim Crow laws?
Holding area for Chinese immigrants upon their arrival in the US
What is Angel Island?
The trend of movement towards the large cities
What was urban migration?
describing the application of biological evolutionary language of Charles Darwin to politics, the economy, and society.
What is Social Darwinism?
Represents a promise by a borrower to pay a lender their principal and usually interest on a loan
Period during which the middle class expanded
What was the Gilded Age?
Absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Measure taken to ensure that constructed buildings were safe, accessible, and soundly built.
What is the standardization of architecture?
Establishment of military rule over Southern states until new governments could be formed
What were the Reconstruction Acts?
The Sherman Antitrust Act
What was the law "preventing" businesses from merging to form monopolies?
Unionized laborers strike against a train car business owner
What was the Pullman strike of 1894?
Popular phrase describing the US as a country of immigrants
What is the "melting pot"?
Alloy (composed of a metal and nonmetal) allowing the construction of skyscrapers which was previously impossible using only raw materials
what is steel?