U. S. History (Industrialization, Labor, Immigration, Urbanization) Duling
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- steerage
- place on the ship where many immigrants stayed during their trip to America
- Angel Island
- place where most immigrants from China entered America. Located on the west coast
- Ellis Island
- place on the east coast where immigrants entered America
- Jane Addams
- founded Hull House to help poor immigrants in Chicago
- Social Gospel
- movement to help the poor in cities
- Fire
- a dangerous result of overcrowding in cheap cuildings
- Rapid Urbanization in the late 1800's
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large numbers of immigrants
farm machinery limiting the need for workers
growth of factories and new industry - scabs
- replacement workers
- vertical integration
- buying out raw material producers and distributors
- most important resources for the growth of industry in 1800's
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oil
iron
coal - Sherman- Anti-Trust Act
- made monopolies illegal
- social Darwinism supported
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existence of poverty
success of business
power of millionaire industrialists - Cities in the 19th century expanded
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subways
skyscrapers
suspension bridges - Christopher Shoals
- invented the typewriter
- John Rockefeller
- built Standard Oil
- Andrew Carnegie
- largest steel company
- George Pullman
- His railroad cars made travel more comfortable
- Thomas Edison
- developed the light bulb
- Granger laws
- state laws to regulate railroad rates
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- law to tightly limit the number of Chinese immigrants
- Social Darwinism
- theory that says society benefits from competition between people is good. The rich get richer and the poor unskilled do not
- Credit Mobilier
- rail construction company overcharged for laying track on the transcontinental railroad
- Pullman
- Factory town built for workers of the rail car industry
- melting pot
- blending various nationalities and traditions in America
- Homestead Strike
- strike at steel plant involved use of scab workers
- Gospel of Wealth
- industrialists and financiers owed something to society for their wealth
- Munn v. Illinois
- court case over regulation of railroad rates
- Interstate Commerce Act
- law that gave federal government control over rail rates
- Haymarket Square
- peaceful labor rally turned deadly after a bomb was thrown at the police