American History 2: Unit 2 Test

Corruption

1. President Grant's Administration 2. Voter Fraud: Use fake names and vote multiple times 3. Patronage: Favors in return for support 4. Graft: Bribes 5. Kick-Backs: Money in exchange for a business

Trust

All companies turn stock over to a group of trustees who ran the separate companies as one large company.

who was the steel tycoon?

Andrew carnagie

Sherman Antitrust Act

Any attempt to interfere with free trade among the state or internationally by forming a trust is illegal. Act put in place to stop trade.

Horizontal Integration

Buying out all competitors

homestead strike

Carnegie hired guys to keep workers under control guys ended up killing 6 workers and plant closed down

Angel Island

Chinese immigrants traveled from the west and arrived on Angel Island, they were increasingly mistreated unlike the immigrants from Ellis island, they often had to wait longer for processing and were beaten.

Knights of Labor

Could be any worker, they wanted better living conditions at work and home.

The Gilded Age

Gilded means to cover something with poor quality with gold Something appears as what it is not

Dumbbell Tenements

Houses in which immigrants lived set up like town houses but they ran for almost a block.

Socialism

Individual people should not control the wealth of the company, everyone should control the money and spread it equally.

How did immigration and industrialization shape urban life?

It advanced and made the US grow up in a way it began a new age of modernization.

To what extent did industrialization affect the relationships between government, business and the worker?

It angered business and workers they government began to get angry because it started to turn into a dangerous situation.

American Federation of Labor

Labor for skilled workers.Included skilled workers, focused on specific workers issues...SKILLED WORKERS *Welders, construction, steel workers..etc*

Write the definition for the terms below. Laissez-faire

Laissez-Faire provoked industrialization because it exemplified a hands off government, business owners were allowed to do basically anything they wanted which allowed cheap labor and long work days.

Mark Twain

Many authors were about society, politics, and issues created the gilded age

Corporation

Many companies all put together under one.

How did the rapid industrialization have a positive or negative impact on the economic and social structure?

Many immigrants were brought over and it diversified the united states although due to nativism most were mistreated.

Monopoly

Owning everything in a certain industry including products, all companies everything ties back to you.

Captains of Industry

People who controlled all of the industry but used their money for positive affects in the town.

Robber Barons

People who used cruel, low down ways to get rich. Attempted to give their money to charity as a way to keep the government off their back.

What happened with Andrew tweed and what was his job?

Political Boss Stole money and was sent to jail worked at Tammany Hall

How did the government's role in economic and political affairs change during this era?

Political machines grew, government corruption although resulted in loss of business because political machines could no longer bribe their friends with a position in office for a vote.

Describe the significance of the terms below: Strikes,Lockouts,Scabs

Scabs were employees who were called in to replace employees who were fighting against big businesses the strikes gave employees a voice and unified them.

What social, economic, and political factors led to the need for formation of labor unions?

Social- People came together more and more as they realized they were being treated unfairly. Economic- Workers weren't making enough money by far. Political- Government didn't have regulation on the factories couldn't make them pay more.

what did Bessemer invent?

Steel

Social Darwinism

Survival of the Fittest

Ellis Island

The European immigrants came from their country to Ellis island, took about 5 hours to get processed

American Dream

The idea that anyone can survive and make something of themselves in America.

What characteristics were vital to the success of industrial leaders of the Gilded age?

The support of your fellow people.

To what extent were labor unions in improving the lives of American workers?

They medially improved the conditions, labor unions are still around today they aid in the fair treatment of workers.

who invented Light bulb?

Thomas Edision

Vertical vs. Horizontal Integration

Vertical- Buying all product needed for the process. Horizontal- Buying out competitors

what was the Pendleton act?

act to get more qualified people back into office government began to lack funds and had to look to big businesses

telephone inventor?

alexander graham bell

what did Rockefeller own?

an oil company

How the Other Half Lives- Jacob Riis

book in which studied the tenements

Capitalism

businesses fail, and new ones come in.

typewrite?

chris sholes

what is an opilogy?

control over most of the market almost a monopoly but you have another small business competing against you.

Pullman strike 1893

cut wages without cost of living people stopped believing unions would help and businesses used the courts to limit the unions power

Kodiak camera?

george eastman

Hull House- Jane Adams

nations first house full of entertainment spaces such as gym, nursery, play ground etc.

How effective were labor unions in meeting the political, economical, and social needs of laborers?

not very effective but affective enough people eventually gave up on them,

first safe elevator ?

otis

what was haymarket square?

riot which ended in many deaths because someone threw a bomb