History Vocabulary 4- gilded age part 2
Transportation
action of transporting someone or something
Child Labor
1 out of every 5 kids of the age of 12 worked by 1910, which kept them of the street and close to parents/cheap labor
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
Haymarket Riot
1886 labor-related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence
Sherman Antitrust Act
1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce
political machines
a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state
settlement houses
community centers organized at the turn of the 20th century to provide social services to the urban poor
urbanization
expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them
market economy
free enterprise system; capitalism(individuals own most of the business)
Government Regulations
government takes measures to regulate "Big Businesses" and prevents the formation of monopolies. established the fundamental principle that congress could regulate business in some circumstances
American Federation of Labor
labor union that organized skilled workers in a specific trade and made specific demands rather than seeking broad changes
Knights of Labor
labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms
Bessemer Process
method developed in the mid-1800s for making steel more efficiently
Great Migration
movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities
Immigration
movement of population from one country to another
Gentlemen's Exclusion Act
pact between US and Japan to end segregation of asian kids in public schools in San Francisco Japan agreed to limit the immigration to the US
Planned Economy
production are publicly and economic activity is controlled by a central authority government controls businesses/people
Homestead Strike (1892)
strike against Carnegie's steelwork; Homestead Pennsylvania
Social Darwinism
the belief held by some in the late nineteenth century that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them
Innovation
the creation of a new way of doing something whether the enterprise is concrete or abstract
railroads
tracks made of steel rails along which passengers and freight trains run on
urban centers
urban area/built up area is a human settlement with a high population density
Pullman Strike (1894)
violent 1894 railway workers' strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide
