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ch19 out of many
chapter 19 out of many
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| knife men | skilled workers in the killing gangs that managed the actual slaughtering and cutting operations; mostly Germans and Irish |
| feedlot | kind of rural factory that replaced pasture |
| Centennial Exposition of 1876 | was held in Philadelphia to celebrate industrial and technological promise of the century to come |
| Alexander Graham Bell | patented the telephone in 1876 and signaled the rise of U.S. as a world leader in industrial technology |
| Edison Electric Light Company | launched in 1882 by Thomas Edison that made incandescent lamp that burned for more than 13 hours |
| Henry Ford | worked for the Detroit Edison company and designed his own automobile |
| Wilbur and Orville Wright | staged the first airplane flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903 |
| anthracite coal | a new source of fuel which was widely used after 1850 |
| steel industry | was the world’s largest which churned out rails to carry trains and part to make more machines to produce more goods |
| cigarette~making machine | patented in 1881 shaped the tobacco, encased it in an endless paper tube and nipped off the tube at cigarette~length intervals |
| vertical integration | the consolidation of numerous production functions, from the extraction of the raw materials to the distribution and marketing of the finished products, under the direction of one firm |
| horizontal combination | the merger of competitors in the same industry |
| Standard Oil Company | founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1870 operated out of Cleveland. |
| Standard Oil Trust | established in 1882, controlled more than 90 percent of the nation’s oil~refining industry |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | passed by Congress in1890 to restore competition by encouraging small business and outlawing “every..combination…in restraint of trade and commerce.” |
| gospel of wealth | thesis that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth, implying that poverty is a character flaw |
| robber barons | people who accumulated unprecedented wealth and power through shady deals and conspiracies |
| Jay Gould | known as world’s worst man because of being a robber baron; took over Erie Railroad and acquired the U.S. Express Company by using pressure |
| Andrew Carnegie | “Richest man in the world” represented the capital of industry who had risen from the ranks through diligence and refused to worship wealth for its own sake |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | act that suspended Chinese immigration, limited civil rights of resident Chinese, and forbad their naturalization |
| Knights of Labor | labor union founded in 1869 that included skilled and unskilled workers irrespective of race or gender |
| Eight Hour League | led by Ira Steward, advocated a natural rhythm of eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, and eight hours for leisure. |
| American Federation of Labor | Union formed in 1886 that organized skilled workers along craft lines and emphasized a few workplace issues rather than a broad social program |
| Illinois Factory Investigation Act of 1893 | offered evidence of their hard work and patience, securing funds form the state legislature to monitor working conditions, and particularly to improve the woeful situation of the many women and children who worked in sweatshops |
| Labor day | became a national holiday in 1894 |
| shtetls | villages in which Jews were boxed in in Europe |
| tenements | four~ to six~story residential dwellings, once common in New York, built on tiny lots without regard to providing ventilation or light |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | nation’s premier landscape architect during the time |
| Brooklyn Bridge | opened in 1883 it won wide acclaim as the most original American construction designed by John Roebling |
| Gilded Age | term applied to late nineteenth~century America that refers to the shallow display and worship of wealth characteristic of that period |
| Conspicuous consumption | highly visible displays of wealth and consumption |
| Tin Pin alley | created by German immigrants and was the center of the popular music industry |
| Morrill Federal Land Grant Act of 1862 | funded a system of state colleges and universities for teaching agriculture and mechanics |
| Women’s Educational and Industrial Union | Boston organization offering classes to wage~earning women |
| Central Park | opened for ice skating in 1858 it provided a model for urban park systems across the United States |
| Vaudeville | most popular form of commercial entertainment since the 1880s |
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