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Gilded Age Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Theory of assimilation in which different ethnicities blend together to create a new culture | melting pot |
| Negative reasons describing why people are fleeing from home countries | push factors |
| A young coal - mining workers whose ob was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker | breaker boy |
| French architect and structural Engineer who designed the Statue of Liberty | Gustav Eiffel |
| The term for why people come to the US. these include higher wages, better employment opportunities, a higher standard of living and educational opportunities. | Pull factors |
| Rail road tycoon whos lack of philanthropy earned him the label of "robber baron" by the NY Times | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| 1913 labor dispute in the coal and oil industries that resulted in the National Guard being call in resulting in the deaths of more than a dozen individuals | ludlow Massacre |
| The name given to a powerful political machine that essentially ran NYC throughout much of the 19th century. The organization reached a peak of notoriety in the decade following the Civil War, when it harbored "The Ring" of Boss Tweed | Tammany Hall |
| Old immigrants to the US | Northern and Western, Europe GB Norweigian |
| The acqusition of a compnay or multiple companies in the same industry | Horizontal integration |
| Socialist leader of the American Railroad Union who directed railroad workers to abstrain from handling any trains during the pullman strike | Eugene Debs |
| Form of political corruption defined as the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain | Graft |
| Labor dispute at Carnegie's mill near pittsburgh that precipitated a strike in 1892 by cutting wages by 20% | Homestead Stike |
| Led by Samuel Gompers, this labor union concentrated on "brea and butter unionism" | American federation of Labor |
| Irish immigrant who defended the use of his political power through the term "honest graft" while working under Boss Tweed | Geroge Plunkett |
| Legistlation that limited the number of immigrnats allowed entry into the US | National Origins Act of 1924 |
| Violent confrontation between police and labor protesters in Chicago on may 4 1886 that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers rights | Haymarket Riot (Bombing) |
| Sottish immigrant who founded the largest steel company in the US | Andrew Carnegie |
| American Natvist politcal party that operated nationally in the mid 1950s that embraced an anti catholic and immigration movement often taking the form of secret society | know nothing party |
| In 1862 the pacific railroad Act chartered these two railroad lines and tasked them with building a transcontiental railroad that would link the US from east to west | Central pacific and union pacific |
| Article written by andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 athat describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self made rich | gospel of wealth |
| The term for the typical multi - occupany dwelling of an urban immigrant | tenement |
| three major natural resources tha dueled the mass industrialization of america | coal iron oil |
| Term for controlling industry from the extraxion of raw material to the marketing of finished products | vertical integration |
| Cultural theory that suggest that the integration of the many different cultures of the US results in each ethnic group retaining its distrinct qualities | salad bowl (pluralism) |
| First method of mass producing steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out exess carbon and impuriteis | bessemer process |
| Purchased carnegie steel and created one of the largest monopolies of all time US steel | J.P. Morgan |
| Immigration station in San Fran bay that served as a point of entry for asians | Angel Island |
| Economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from governemtn intervention | Laissez Faire Capitalism |
| The inventor of the elevator | Elisha Otis |
| The theory that individuals groups and pople are subject to the same laws of natural selection, used to justify the uneven distribution of wealth | social darwinism |
| racist color metaphor that is intergal to the xenophoic theory of colonialism that he people of east asia are a danger to the western world | yellow peril |
| Author of the wealth of nations, which opposed government interference and advocated leaving economic to the invisible hand of the market | adam smit |
| Ne immigrants | Southern Europe, Russia, Asian countries |
| Problems in cities | Lack of clean water Limited trash disposal and poor sanitation Rise of tenement/slums |
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