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Industrial Rev.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Social Darwinism | Belief that survival of the fittest exists in human society |
| Monopoly | A company that controls an entire industry |
| Industrialization | Change in economy from hand-man products to factory-made products |
| Laissez Faire | "Hands off" policy that the government had towards business in the late 1800's |
| Urbanization | movement of people from farms to cities |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Inventor of the telephone |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor of the light bulb, motion picture camera, and central power plant |
| J.D. Rockefeller | Wealthy industrialist who created the Standard Oil Company |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | Wealthy industrialist that created the New York central Railroad |
| Andrew Carnegie | Wealthy industrialist that controlled the steel industry |
| J.P. Morgan | Wealthy banker |
| Wright Brothers | Created the airplane |
| tenements | small apartments that housed many immigrants in cities |
| Robber Barons | Negative view of wealthy industrialists that considered them greedy and making money off the work of others. |
| Haymarket Riot | Incident in 1866 in Chicago that turned violent and was responsible for the end of the Knights of Labor |
| Gilded Age | Nickname for the late 1800's - even though prosperity (wealth) was created for some, most people lived in horrible conditions |
| Collective Bargaining | Power used by unions to negotiate contracts as one unit |
| Philanthropy | Giving back to human society |
| Samuel Gompers | Leader of the American Federation of Labor |
| Henry Ford | Created the assembly line process to build the Model T |
| Gospel of Wealth | Book written by Andrew Carnegie that expressed his view of wealth- individuals should have freedom to make as much money as possible but they should give the money back to society at the end of their lives. |
| Boss Tweed | Political boss of Tammany Hall in New York City during the late 1800s |
| Political Machine | Organizations in cities that gave immigrants jobs in return for votes when they became citizens. The most famous was Tammany Hall. |
| American Federation of Labor | Only successful union in the late 1800s that focused on "bread and butter" goals and only included skilled workers. |
| Knights of Labor | Organization of laborers that worked to improve the working conditions of people in factories. |
| Sherman Anti-Trust | Law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade |
| Old Immigrants | people who came from Northern and Western Europe (England, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland) |
| New Immigrants | people who came from Southern and Eastern Europe (Greece, Romania, Italy, Poland, and China). New immigrants had a more difficult time assimilated into society. |
| Nativist | Someone against immigration |
| Quota Act | Limited the number of immigrants allowed into the United States. It favored immigrants from Northern and western Europe. |
| Union | An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages. |
| Homestead Strike | Strike at Andrew Carnegie's steel plant in which Pinkerton detectives clashed with steel workers |
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