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US His 3 Dangel
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Steel | Alloy of iron and carbon that is widely used in construction and other applications because of its hardness and tensile strength-Andrew Carnegie |
| Henry Bessemer | Developed first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace |
| Railroad | Pullman Strike- Railroad workers walked out because of wage cuts and hours, Pres. Cleveland called in National Guard to stop it |
| Chicago | Location of Haymarket Riot - occured during a labor rally , started when someone threw a bomb killing a police officer |
| Home Insurance Building | |
| Henry Frick | Andrew Carnegie's business partner- whose decisions caused //// |
| South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club | Private exclusive club for wealthy, owned South Fork damn which burst, flooding Johnstown |
| Jim Hill | Owner of Great Northern Railroad |
| Standard Oil | Formed by John D. Rockefeller |
| Tom Scott | |
| Commodore | Nick name for Cornelius Banderbilt |
| Grand Central Depot | American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest such facility in the world by number of platforms[5] with 44 serving 67 tracks along them |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping |
| John D. Rockefeller | Controlled oil industry through Standard Oil Company by setting up trusts with other oil companies |
| Robber Barons | Nickname given to industrialists and financiers implying that they stole their fortunes by paying their workers low wages |
| Captains of Industry | Nickname given to industrialists and financiers implying they were steering our country in the direction of economic progress |
| Vertical Consolidation | Gaining control of many different businesses that make up all phases of a product's development |
| Horizontal Consolidation | Bringing together many firms in the same business to form a large company |
| Cartels | Loose association of producers that coordinate prices and production |
| Laissez Faire | Doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights |
| Socialism | A way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government |
| Eugene V. Debs | Socialist who ran for President 5 times, founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World Union |
| Ellis Island | New York port of entry for immigrants |
| Angel Island | San Francisco, Calif. port of enty for immigrants |
| Suburb | Residential area surrounded by a city |
| Tenement | Multistory building divided into apartments to house several families, conditions often unsanitary |
| Steerage | The hold of a ship located under the main deck where animals and cargo are usually held. |
| Sharecropping | A farmer tends some portion of a planter's land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time a s payment |
| Dawes Act | 1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
| Assimilate | People of one culture merge into and become part of another culture |
| Populist Party | Formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply and other economic reforms |
| William J. Bryan | Democratic Presidential candidate in 1896, |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | "Separate but Equal" |
| Grandfather Clause | Passage in a law that exempts a group of people from obeying the law if they had met certain conditions before the law was passed |
| Sufferage | Right to vote |
| Booker T. Washington | Told young African Americans to put aside their desire for political equality and focus on building economic security through gaining vocational skills |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Civil Rights Activist-brightest African Americans had to step forward to lead their people in their struggle for political and social equality |
| Ida B. Wells | Crusaded against lynching of blacks |
| Wyoming | First state to allow women to vote |
| Spoils System | The giving of government jobs to friends and supporters by newly elected officials |
| Republicans | Supported high protective tariffs |
| Democrats | Supported lower duties, or taxes, on imported goods |
| Grange | 1867, organization helped southern and western farmers form cooperatives and pressured state legislatures to regulate businesses on which farmers depended |
| Farmers Alliance | Organized agrarian economic midwest movement among American farmers that developed and flourished |
| James Otis | Member of US group called "Committee of Correspondence" that coordinated resistance throughout the colonies to British rule |
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