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25 Cards in this Set
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WIlliam and Cornelious Vanderbilt |
Leader in the Railroad inudstry Controlled 60% of all railroads |
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Promontory Point, Utah |
May 10, 1869 Pacific Union and Central Union met to finish the transcontinental railroad A gold spike was placed where they met, it dissappeared and was never found |
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Effect on Buffalo and Native Americans |
Both populations decreased because Americans were buying land adjacent to the railroads, so they would force the Native Americans out peacefully or with military power The Buffalo population significantly decreased because of barbed wire which confined large groups of cattle/buffalo |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Lead the United States Steel Industry Was alive from 1835-1919 |
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Thomas Edison |
Creator (Helped Create) of many things; Phonograph, Motion Photo Camera, Lightbulb |
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Henry Ford |
Sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production
"You can paint it in any color as long as it's black" |
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Wright Brothers |
First Airplane Launched at Kill Devil Hill |
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George Westinghouse |
Invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry |
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Assembly Line |
An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from work station to work station where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced. |
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Mass Production |
The production of large amounts of standardized products, including and especially on assembly lines
Impact of: Things were able to get to places much faster becuase they came in large amounts |
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John D. Rockefeller |
Started Standard Oil Owned a "monoply" Owned over 90% of the oil indusrty in the US Weathiest man ever |
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Gospel of Weath |
An article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich. |
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Philanthropy |
The practice of the rich giving to the poor |
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Monopoly |
When one business dominates all the other/smaller ones by buying most of the supplies need to succeed so they have to go through them |
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Corporation |
An independent legal entity owned by shareholders |
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Stocks |
The goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a business or warehouse and available for sale or distribution.
(Little slices of a company) |
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Sherman Anti-trust |
1890 Federal Government tries to stop monopolies |
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Nativism |
Somone who hates native americans |
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Ellis Island |
Where immagrants would come through to start a new life
New York |
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Statue of Liberty |
Given to the US by France in 1815 as a sign of peace
Lady Liberty |
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Push Factors |
Factors that drive citizens out of the country Examples: Pollution, bad working condtions |
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Pull Factors |
Factors that pull foreigners to the United States Examples: Jobs, Freedom |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. |
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Muckraker |
Journalist who goes undercover to get information to try and change society's problems |
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Union |
Organization of workers working for better working conditions |
