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Chapter 17
HIstory - American Republic
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| several transcontinental railroads | were built across the American West in the late 1800 |
| after the civil war | long distance travel in the East became efficient |
| Urban areas | experienced tremendous growth during the 1800s |
| Exclusion Act of 1882 | passed to stem the tide of Chinese immigrants |
| the transcontinental railroads sold | land granted by the government to help pay for their projects |
| John D Rockefeller | formed the first trust in the oil industry |
| Social Darwinism | believed that driving weak competitors out of business was just a part of the struggle for survival |
| Late 1800s | brought many inventions |
| used to stop a strike | injunction |
| a business owned by two or more people | partnership |
| s super-size corporation of combined businesses | trust |
| focus on money and possessions | materialism |
| a one-owner business | sole proprietorship |
| Alexander Graham Bell | invented the telephone |
| Andrew Carnegie | built a huge steel empire |
| Thomas Edison | invented the incandescent light bulb |
| Samuel Gompers | American Federation of Labor president |
| John D Rockefeller | formed a trust in the oil industry |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | consolidated railroads in the Northeast |
| American Federation of Labor | a group of local unions composed of skilled laborers |
| Union Pacific Railroad | built in the 1860s by Irish workers and war veterans |
| Great Northern Railroad | a transcontinental line built near the Canadian border |
| Knight of Labor | an older union open to all workers |
| Central Pacific Railroad | built eastward across the Sierra Nevada range |
| China | provided immigrants who worked on the western parts of the transcontinental railroad |
| John D Rockefeller | formed the first trust |
| Immigration | was the biggest reason for the increase in American population |
| Sherman Anti-trust Act | legislation passed in 1890 to try to stop the formation of trusts |
| many immigrant came from Ireland because | of a potato blight (disease) that created famine in Ireland |
| The first transcontinental railroad linked the | Union Pacific and the Central Pacific |
| James Hill | was associated with the Great Northern Railroad |
| Many Immigrants enter the United States by | Ellis Island |
| holding company | is a business consolidation that buys stocks to control several businesses in an industry and then makes decisions in the interest of the entire group |
| Laissez-Faire policies are closely associated with | captialism |
| one right the labor unions were eager to acquire | collective bargaining |
| The first transcontinental railroad was competed in | promontory point, Utah |
| review pages 336-338 |
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