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Vocabulary
Industrial Growth
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Telegraph | an invention created by Samuel Morse that helped increase communication |
| Telephone | invented by Alexander Graham Bell, increased communication |
| Light bulb | allowed factories to stay open after dark and increased the rate of production |
| Canals | human constructed waterways that helped improve water travel and expanded the U.S. economy |
| Railroads | contributed to industrial growth by allowing producers to ship goods across the country cheaper, faster, and more efficiently |
| Internal combustion engine | relied on the combustion of a fossil fuel like gasoline |
| Henry Ford | was the first to perfect it and successfully market and mass produce it |
| Model T | Henry Fords first mass-produced automobile |
| Ellis Island | located in New York harber near the Statue of Liberty, became a reception center for poor immigrants entering the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries |
| Melting pot | referred to the fact that many envisioned the United States as a place where people of all backgrounds and from all countries could be assimilated into American culture |
| Cultural pluralism | refers to the presence and influence of many cultures within one society |
| Ethnic ghettos | poop immigrants lived within poor, inner city neighborhoods known as ghettos |
| Push factors | factors that encourage people to leave an area |
| Pull factors | factors that encourage people to immigrate or migrate to an area |
| Tenements | poor immigrants lived in over crowded, unsanitary, one room apartments |
| Sweatshops | makeshift factories set up in small apartments by subcontractors who were hired by factory owners to help with production |
| Bessemer process | new method for producing steel that was faster and more efficient and greatly increased the rate of production |
| Andrew Carnegie | a business man who grew to dominate the steel industry |
| Monopoly | gaining exclusive control over the supply of a particular product, eliminating competition |
| John D. Rockefeller | business man who grew to dominate the oil industry, established the nation's first trust |
| Standard Oil | John D. Rockefeller's oil company and the nation's first trust |
| Trust | an arrangement in which a number of businesses unite under one system |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | a business man who greatly impacted the railroad industry |
| J.P. Morgan | a finance capitalist who grew to control several banks, insurance companies, and stock markets |
| George Westinghouse | founded Westinghouse Electric Company; invented a transformer that increased access to electrical power |
| Political machines | unofficial and often corrupt entities that worked to keep a certain party or certain officials in political ofice |
| Boss William Tweed | the notorious boss over New York's political machine, Tammany Hall |
| Tammany Hall | the corrupt political club/machine that was led by William Tweed and controlled New York city's Democratic Party |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | passed in 1890 for the purposse of making monopolies illegal |
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