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Debs

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Formed the American Railway Union

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Vertical Integration

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Process by which a company buys out all of it's suppliers

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Carnegie

answer

Millionaire tycoon, who made riches in the steel company

question

American Federation of Labor

answer

Focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic

question

Sherman Antitrust Act

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Made it illegal for corporations I interfere with free interstate or companies

question

Holding Company

answer

A corporation that does nothing but buy out the stock of other companies

question

Mary Harris Jones

answer

Supporter I the Great Strike of 1877 and organizer of the United Mine Workers of America

question

Industrial Workers of the World

answer

Organized in Chicago, 1905, by a group of radical unionist and socialists

question

Social Darwinism

answer

Theory that justified the efforts of millionaires and discouraged government interference in big business

question

Trust

answer

A corporation made up of many companies that receive certificates entitling them to dividends on profits earned

question

Monopoly

answer

A market in which one company has complete control over an industry's production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged

question

Chinese exclusion act

answer

A restriction on immigration passed by Congress

question

Gentleman's Agreement

answer

An agreement that limited the immigration if unskilled workers to the United States in exchange for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation order

question

Nativism

answer

Idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions

question

Melting Pot

answer

The mixture of diverse cultures whose people blended together by abandoning their native language and customs

question

Ellis Island

answer

Immigrants arriving on the East Coast pass before gaining entry into the United States

question

Angle Island

answer

Immigrants arriving on the West Coast pass before gaining entry into the United States

question

Gentleman's Agreement

answer

A restriction on emigration worked out between the United States and another government

question

Ellis Island

answer

19th-century Eastern European immigrants more likely passed befit gaining entry into the United States

question

Urbanization

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The growth of cities

question

Tenement Homes

answer

Many city dwellers crowded into multifamily, often unsanitary

question

Americanization movement

answer

Designed to assimilate diverse people into that dominant culture

question

Shole

answer

Invented the typewriter

question

Alexander Bell

answer

Invented the telephone

question

Bessemer

answer

Developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel

question

Drake

answer

Introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earths surface

question

Thomas Edison

answer

Perfected the incandescent light build at his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey

question

Thomas Edison

answer

Developed an entire system fir production and distributing electrical power and organized power plants around the nation

question

Stalwarts

answer

Republican supporters of New York City boss Roscoe Conkling were strongly opposed to civil-service reform

question

Pendleton Act

answer

This authorized an independent civil service commission to make government appointments based on the merit system

question

Arthur

answer

This president surprised everyone by turning reformer. His efforts to persuade Congress to reform the civil service resulted in the Pendleton Act

question

Garfield

answer

This president was a strong supporter of civil-service reform. Although he did not succee in getting congress to go along with his plans for reform, he was able to clean up the nations customhouses

question

Graft

answer

This was any type of unethical or illegal use if political influence fit personal gain

question

Political machines

answer

These were organized groups that controlled the activities of a political party in a city

question

Transcontinental railroad

answer

At Promontory Point, Utah, where the central pacific and Union Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, a golden spike marked the linking of the nation by the first

question

Pullman

answer

An industrialist whose company produced standard railroads cars and elegant sleeping cars. His company town, which he hoped would ensure a stable workforce, was criticized as "un-American"

question

Railroads

answer

The Munn v. Illinois, the state won the right to regulate what for the benefit if farmers and other consumers

question

Debs

answer

Formed the American Railway Union

question

Vertical Integration

answer

Process by which a company buys out all of it's suppliers

question

Carnegie

answer

Millionaire tycoon, who made riches in the steel company

question

American Federation of Labor

answer

Focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic

question

Sherman Antitrust Act

answer

Made it illegal for corporations I interfere with free interstate or companies

question

Holding Company

answer

A corporation that does nothing but buy out the stock of other companies

question

Mary Harris Jones

answer

Supporter I the Great Strike of 1877 and organizer of the United Mine Workers of America

question

Industrial Workers of the World

answer

Organized in Chicago, 1905, by a group of radical unionist and socialists

question

Social Darwinism

answer

Theory that justified the efforts of millionaires and discouraged government interference in big business

question

Trust

answer

A corporation made up of many companies that receive certificates entitling them to dividends on profits earned

question

Monopoly

answer

A market in which one company has complete control over an industry's production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged

question

Chinese exclusion act

answer

A restriction on immigration passed by Congress

question

Gentleman's Agreement

answer

An agreement that limited the immigration if unskilled workers to the United States in exchange for the repeal of the San Francisco segregation order

question

Nativism

answer

Idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions

question

Melting Pot

answer

The mixture of diverse cultures whose people blended together by abandoning their native language and customs

question

Ellis Island

answer

Immigrants arriving on the East Coast pass before gaining entry into the United States

question

Angle Island

answer

Immigrants arriving on the West Coast pass before gaining entry into the United States

question

Gentleman's Agreement

answer

A restriction on emigration worked out between the United States and another government

question

Ellis Island

answer

19th-century Eastern European immigrants more likely passed befit gaining entry into the United States

question

Urbanization

answer

The growth of cities

question

Tenement Homes

answer

Many city dwellers crowded into multifamily, often unsanitary

question

Americanization movement

answer

Designed to assimilate diverse people into that dominant culture

question

Shole

answer

Invented the typewriter

question

Alexander Bell

answer

Invented the telephone

question

Bessemer

answer

Developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel

question

Drake

answer

Introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earths surface

question

Thomas Edison

answer

Perfected the incandescent light build at his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey

question

Thomas Edison

answer

Developed an entire system fir production and distributing electrical power and organized power plants around the nation

question

Stalwarts

answer

Republican supporters of New York City boss Roscoe Conkling were strongly opposed to civil-service reform

question

Pendleton Act

answer

This authorized an independent civil service commission to make government appointments based on the merit system

question

Arthur

answer

This president surprised everyone by turning reformer. His efforts to persuade Congress to reform the civil service resulted in the Pendleton Act

question

Garfield

answer

This president was a strong supporter of civil-service reform. Although he did not succee in getting congress to go along with his plans for reform, he was able to clean up the nations customhouses

question

Graft

answer

This was any type of unethical or illegal use if political influence fit personal gain

question

Political machines

answer

These were organized groups that controlled the activities of a political party in a city

question

Transcontinental railroad

answer

At Promontory Point, Utah, where the central pacific and Union Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, a golden spike marked the linking of the nation by the first

question

Pullman

answer

An industrialist whose company produced standard railroads cars and elegant sleeping cars. His company town, which he hoped would ensure a stable workforce, was criticized as "un-American"

question

Railroads

answer

The Munn v. Illinois, the state won the right to regulate what for the benefit if farmers and other consumers

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