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U.S. History- Test 1
Ch. 9 - 10.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the total value of all goods and services prodced by a country | gross national product |
| in 1859, drilled the first oil well near titusville, pennsylvania | Edwin Drake |
| "let people do as they choose" | laissez-faire |
| people who risk their capital in organizing and running a business | entrepreneurs |
| reversed years of declining tariffs | Morrill Tariff |
| In 1876, a Scottish-American invented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| one of the most famous inventors of the late 1800's | Thomas Alva Edison |
| this act provided for the construction of a transcontinental railroad by two | Pacific Railway Act |
| a former union general, the union pacific began pushing westward from Omaha, Nebraska, in 1865 | Grenville Dodge |
| became governor of California and later served as a U.S. senator after foudning standord University in 1885 | Leland Stanford |
| a former boat captain who had built the largest steamboat fleet in america | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| regions where the same time was kept | time zones |
| was a construction company set up by several stockholders of the union pacific, including Oakes Ames | Credit Mobilier |
| Built and operated teh Great Northern Railroad from St. Paul, Minnesota, to Everett, Washington, without any federal land grants or subsidies. | James J. Hill |
| corporation | an organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a single person |
| stockholders | people who own the corporation |
| stock | shares of ownership of a corporation |
| economies of scale | is when corporatoins make goods more cheaply because they produce so much so quickly using large manufacturing facilities |
| fixed costs | are cost a company has to pay |
| operating costs | are costs that occur when running a company |
| pools | agreements to maintain prices at a certain level |
| andrew carnegie | illustrated many of the different factors that led to industrialism and the rise of big business |
| horizontal integration | or combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation |
| monopoly | when a single company achieves control of an entire market |
| deflation | or a rise in the value of money |
| trade unions | limited to people with specific skills |
| industrial unions | united all craft workers and common workers and common laborers in a particular industry |
| blacklist | workers who tried to organize a union or strike were fired and placed on a list of "troublemakers". |
| marxism | ideas of karl marx |
| knights of labor | the first nationwide industrial union |
| arbitration | |
| a process in which an impartial third party helps workers and management reach an agreement | |
| Samuel Gompers | American Federation of Labor's first leader |
| closed shops | meaning that companies could only hire union members |
| Women's Trade Union League | the first national assocation dedicated to promoting women's labor issues |
| Steerage | the most basic and cheapest accommodations on a steamship |
| Edward Steiner | An Iowa clergyman who posed as an immigrant in order to write a book on immigration. |
| Ellis Island | a tiny island in New York Harbor which served as the processing center for many of the immigrants arriving on the East Coast after 1892 |
| Jacob Riis | A Danish-born journalist, observed in 1890 that a map of NYC, “colored to designate nationalities, would show more stripes than on the skin of a zebra |
| Angel Island | Cal. Opened a barracks on it to accommodate the Asian immigrants |
| Nativism | Is an extreme dislike for foreigners by native-born people and a desire to limit immigration |
| American Protective Association | founder, Henry Bowers, despised Catholics and foreigners and committed his group to stopping immigration |
| Workingman’s Party of California | Denis Karney, an Irish immigrant, organized group in 1870’s to fight Chinese immigration |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | the law barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens |
| Skyscrapers | Tall steel frame buildings began to appear on American skylines |
| Louis Sullivan | contributed to the design of skyscrapers |
| Frank J. Sprague | developed the electric trolley car |
| High society | Established fashionable districts in the hearts of cities |
| Middle-Class gentility | Included doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers, social workers, architects, and teachers |
| The Working Class | Majority of American city dwellers at the turn of the century would have considered an eight-room house an absolute luxury |
| Tenements | dark and crowded multi-family apartments |
| party bosses | provided necessities |
| George Plunkitt | an Irish immigrant who rose to be one of NYC’s most powerful party bosses |
| Graft | fraud; getting money through dishonest or questionable means |
| Political machine | an informal political group designed to gain and keep power, came about party because cities had grown much faster than their governments |
| William M. “Boss” Tweed | was Tammany hall’s corrupt leader during the 1860’s and 1870’s |
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