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Industrialization
Feb.26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are entrepreneurs? | People who supply money and imagination to a business. A foresighted ambitious person who organizes and assumes the risk of a business venture |
| Who invented the light bulb? | Tomas edison |
| What did I. M. Singer create? | Sewing machine |
| What did Edison create? | Light bulb and phonograph |
| What was the Haymmarket Square strike? | Speaker stepped down and bomb went off killing seven. Union was blamed for bomb. |
| Who were the people hired to work in place of those on strike? | Strikebreakers |
| What was the Homestead act? | AFL asked for a raise and locked out by management. Turned into a gun battle between strikers and detectives. |
| What was the Pullman strike? | Business lowered wages and workers went on strike. THe plant shut down. Rail traffic halted and federal troops were sent in. Established precedents of using court orders and federal troops to end strike. |
| Who were the immigrants that immigrated in the 1890's? | Southern and eastern European immigrants |
| Who were the immigrants that immigrated in the 1865 and 1882? | Chinese immigrants |
| Why did people immigrate? | escaping poverty, political turmoil, gold rush, work, religious persecution |
| What was Nativism? | a policy of favoring native born inhabitants over immigrants. |
| who said "America for Americans" and opposed immigration | the APA |
| Williams Mayo | Established an emergency hospital that evolved into the Mayo Clinic |
| Mayer Guggenheim | sold lace door to door to a fortune in mining and a Museum philanthropist |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Became newspaper editor. Established a graduate program in journalism |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Created telephone |
| Andrew Carnegie | Revolutionized steel production wit the introduction of the blast furnace |
| Samuel Gompers | Labor Union leader |
| Ah Bing | Bing cherry |
| Lu Gim Gon | Mediterranean Valencia orange |
| What was profit? | The money left over after paid expenses |
| What was the American dream? | The idea tat anyone could be successful no matter how humble their beginnings |
| What is a philanthropist? | A person who gives money for funding of a business |
| Industrial workers? | had low wages, long hours, dangerous conditions |
| What was the assembly line? | moving belt that workers preformed one small task at, made making things faster and cheaper. |
| Who introduced the assembly line? | Henry Ford |
| What was mass production? | Manufacturing of a large quantities of the same time. Quicker and cheaper, raw materials were less expensive, needed more unskilled labor. |
| What was dangerous about the factories? | Poisonous gasses, high temperatures, dangerous machines, low pay, no programs for unemployed workers. |
| What was a small town that workers lived in? | Company towns |
| Workers not happy about blanks, thought that the company had too much control over their lives? | Company towns |
| What was a labor union? | A worker’s organization that would try to obtain better wags and better working conditions |
| First influential union in the us? | Knights of labor. |
| American Federation of Labor? | Wanted shorter hours, improved conditions, focusing on skilled laborers |
| laisse Faire | Economic policy that advocates no government inference in business |
| good government movement | tried to get rid of government corruption |
| progressivism | A reform movement that advocated basic social, economic, and government reform |
| muckraker | a journalist who wrote and exposed corruption |
| Ida Tarbell | Standard oil |
| Nellie Bly | Mental institutions |
| lincoln steffens | city government |
| upton sinclair | meat packing |
| Jane Addams | started Hull House |
| John Dewey | education reform |
| Tenement | cheap build buildings |
| zoning law | can't build in an area |
| Robert LaFollette | Republican governor of wisconsin |
| Referendum | allowed vote after passed |
| Recall | remove officer |
| 11th amendment | not letting someone go to court |
| 12th amendment | separating president form vice |
| 13th amendment | freed slaves |
| 14th amendment | citizenship |
| 15th amendment | blacks could vote |
| 16th amendment | taxes |
| 17th amendment | election of senators |
| 18th amendment | prohibition |
| 19th amendment | women vote |
| 1912 election | republican party split |
| prohibition women with ax | Carry Nation |
| Florence Kelley | child labor |
| Eugene debs | socialist |
| Anarchists | against government |
| "Jim Crow" Laws | segregation allowed |
| DuBois | Helped to found the NAACP. Black Americans urged to demand their civil rights |
| Union Pacific Railroad | fake railroad, Called credit mobilier |
| People who were nice to neighborhood and wanted their vote in return for their money and generosity. | Political bosses |
| spoils system | one guy chooses if you get the job, no qualifications |
| mugwumps | favored reform, wanted to replace spoils system |
| monopoly | a company who controls the market |
| trust | a group of campaniles who work together to control the market |
| homestead act | work land for five years |
| obstacles of journeying | landforms, water, indians climate |
| improved transportation | railways |
| places that were abandoned after resources were gone | ghost towns |
| assimilation | adapting to culture |
| steel frame | made building skyscrapers easier |
| Steel industry | Andrew Carnagie |
| conservation | protecting natural resources |
| settlement houses | used as community houses |
| Interstate Commerce act | law to control railroads |
| What was Annuity | help native americans until they can support themselves |
| William Marcy tweed was the head of what | tammany hall |
| What lead to corrupt officials | political machines |
| Cornelius Vanderbuilt | was a railroad owner, didn't care about laws |
| Nativism | discriminating against immigrants |
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