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 |