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NC USH Goal 5
Big Business of 1800s Review by Matt Ingram
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The greatest invention of the 1800s by Thomas Edison | Lightbulb |
| This process allowed steel to be made from iron and revolutionized the steel industry | Bessemer Process |
| Head of Standard Oil, also the richest man in America | Rockefeller |
| Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry | Carnegie |
| Process in which companies producing similar products merge, a.k.a. buying out your competition | Horizontal Integration |
| Process in which a company buys out its suppliers | Vertical Integration |
| Leader of the American Railway Union, ran for president from jail | Eugene V. Debs |
| In regard to immigration, America is seen as this; a mixture of different cultures living together | Melting Pot |
| The Chinese Exclusion Act didn't allow Chinese to __________ to America | Immigrate |
| Theory that taught only the strong or richest to survive | Social Darwinism |
| Idea of the rich that with great wealth comes the responsibility to help the less fortunate, known as ________ of Wealth | Gospel of Wealth |
| Situation when several businesses act like a monopoly | Trust |
| Poor apartments where immigrants lived in terrible conditions | Tenement |
| Christian movement that urged people to help the poor, has the word 'gospel' in it | Social Gospel Movement |
| Community center set up by Jane Addams to address problems in slum areas | Hull House |
| Discrimination against immigrants and those not from America | Nativism |
| Political group that controlled the local govenment through graft, fraud, and other illegal means | Political machine |
| The most famous political machine, in New York, headed by Boss Tweed | Tammany Hall |
| Head of Tammany Hall | Boss Tweed |
| Political cartoonist of the 1800s who criticized Tammany Hall and drew many significant political cartoons; Thomas _____ | Thomas Nast |
| This president's assassination led the federal government to end the spoils system and replace it with the merit system | Garfield |
| He wrote 'How the Other Half Lives' about the harshness of immigrant living, Jacob ____ | Jacob Riis |
| One of the first unions, the Knights of Labor, declined when a bomb was exploded at a protest in this square | Haymarket Square Riot |
| Factory fire where 146 women died, resulting in cities passing work regulations | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
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