American History Flashcards
(17 cards)
Corporations
legal entities that’s separate from their owners. Corporations can make a profit, be taxed, and can be held legally liable
Monopolies
one business or cooperation has complete control over our industry
Robber barons
a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices
Social Darwinism
is the survival of the fittest, basically making the poor stay poor.
“melting pot”
a place with a lot of different ethnic things including race, religion and different beliefs.
Tenement
crowded dirty apartments
Chinese Exclusion Act
they banned chinese people from immigrating to the u
Nativism
people that don’t want immigrants, they are typically the third generation or more to live there.
Sweatshop
a place for work, long hours, low pay, horrible working conditions.
Haymarket Affair
a bunch of workers fromed a union to try to get better treatment while the police were called on them and then one person threw a bomb which led to 7 police dying
Eugene V. Debs
he runs the railroad unions and then becomes a politician and become a solcialist
Andrew Carnegie
he owned the steel company
Ellis and Angel Islands
immigration processing center for people from asia
John D. Rockefeller
he was the richest man of all time.
Thomas Edison
he invented the lightbulb
List and explain the factors that led to the rapid industrialization in America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
natural resources, immigration, new inventions
Describe the labor movement in terms of what they wanted, examples of unions and their leaders, examples of strikes or conflicts with factory owners and results/effects of the movement.
they wanted higher wages and better working conditions, they were often overworked and underpaid.
