Rise of Industry
His inventions and innovations brought us moving pictures, the phonograph (record player), electricity, and the light bulb.
Who is Thomas EDISON?
The belief that the United States was meant to settle all the land between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (“From sea to shining sea”).
What is manifest destiny?
Explain one reason why the buffalo were important to the Plains Indians.
Buffalo were their source of food, clothing, shelter, weapons, and tools.
Term that refers to a railroad line that links the nation from coast to coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Billionaire steel tycoon who opened the largest steel factory the world had ever known in Pittsburgh, PA
Who is Andrew CARNEGIE?
Method of cheaply converting iron into steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
One of the many trails west that settlers used to move away from the East Coast.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This was the largest source of conflict between whites and Native Americans as Westward Expansion grew.
What was land ownership/land development?
The Central Pacific railroad employed immigrant labor mostly from this ethnic group on the West Coast.
What is the Chinese?
A holding company that consolidates an industry into a near monopoly
What is a trust?
A type of business consolidation that involves buying out the supply chain in order to minimize production costs
What is vertical integration?
This opened so that goods could be transported by water from the Great Lakes to New York City and back.
What is the Eerie Canal?
Native Americans were "provided" land on which to settle and assimilate in this controversial act.
Besides hiring former Civil War veterans, the Union Pacific railroad employed immigrant labor mainly from this ethnic group in the Midwest and East coast.
What is the Irish?
Oil tycoon who made a fortune by creating a formidable trust that controlled over 90% of the oil industry
Who is John D. ROCKEFELLER?
Roughly translated from the French, it means "let it be," and is used to describe government policy that does not interfere with business.
What is laissez-faire?
This word means "to take over" usually referring to territory.
What is "annex"?
the name given to the pieces of land that Native Americans were forced to live on once they were removed from their own land.
What are Reservations?
He made his fortune as a railroad tycoon. His name can be found on this university, located in Nashville, Tennessee.
Who is Cornelius VANDERBILT?
The act of "walking out" on your job to fight for better working conditions or a pay increase
What is a strike?
The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
What is Social Darwinism?
The United States defeated this country to gain most of its land in the southwest, including California, Arizona, and Nevada.
What is Mexico?
Native Americans were increasingly forced into these in order to better assimilate into American culture by abandoning their language and other traditions.
What are boarding schools?
It was the first major national strike against the railroads that resulted in federal troops arriving to break the strike.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
The first major national union, it accepted all workers into its membership regardless of race or gender.
Who is the Knights of Labor?