Immigration and Urbanization
Who merged with J.P. Morgan to form U.S. Steel?
Andrew Carnegie
What allowed for mass production of steel?
Bessemer Process
Which act prohibited the Chinese immigrants from immigration to the United States?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Who invented the oil drill?
Edwin Drake
What inventions of the late 1800s improved business and industry? (4)
Elevator, Bell's phone, Edison's light bulb, Sholes' typewriter
What did Mark Twain call the late 1800s?
Gilded Age
Who wrote How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
Who started the settlement house movement? (These were community centers)
Jane Addams
Who started Standard Oil?
John D. Rockefeller
When these trusts eliminated all competition, what were they called?
Monopolies
Which immigrants were primarily from Western Europe? Eastern Europe and Asia?
Old; New
They thought of themselves as "Captains of Industry," but what did some call Carnegie, Rockefeller, etc.?
Robber Barrons
When Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" is applied to the human population?
Social Darwinism
What was the term for owners allowing a board of trustees to control businesses?
Trusts