Agreement in which a worker commits to not join a labor

union

1890 law that sought to break up business

conglomerates

Ways to get around in the growing cities Anti-immigrant system of

beliefs

Industrialization

NYC immigration station; many immigrants from

Europe entered through here

Growth of factories and machine production in the

late 1800s

Ch

inese E

xclu

sio

n A

ct

18

82

law

that b

anned

im

mig

ratio

n fro

m C

hin

a

Worst sca

nd

al o

f the

Gra

nt a

dm

inistra

tion

Ellis Island

Money embezzled from the government

Am

usem

en

t P

arkP

resid

ent o

f the

Knig

hts o

f Lab

or

Trolleys & Elevators Nativism Urbanization

Captain of Industry Robber Baron Haymarket Affair

Socialism Arbitration Yellow-Dog Contract Sherman Antitrust Act

Typewriter U.S. Steel Great Strike of 1877 Child Labor“Teddy Bear” president

Process by which iron is made into steel

Election to remove an official from office

Growth of cities

Complementary way of describing a wealthy

businessman

Insulting way of describing a wealthy

businessman

1886 Riot in Chicago; police officers were

killed; labor movement was discredited

Belief that workers should control means of production

& wealth should be distributed more equally

Negotiation between labor and management; third party will make the final decision

Theory

that n

ew

cultu

res stick

to

geth

er &

don’t b

lend

in

com

ple

tely

with

“Am

erica

n cu

lture

”

New

Im

mig

ran

tsV

ert

ical In

teg

rati

on

Inju

ncti

on

Mu

gw

um

ps

Sala

d B

ow

lM

on

op

oly

Str

ike

Secre

t (A

ustr

alian

) B

allot

Melt

ing

Pot

Lais

sez

Fair

eR

efe

ren

du

mP

en

dle

ton

Act

Collecti

ve B

arg

ain

ing

Lab

or

Un

ion

One b

usin

ess w

hich

tota

lly

contro

ls pro

ductio

n o

f a g

ood

Work

ers re

fuse

to w

ork

in

ord

er to

win

bette

r w

ag

es a

nd

work

ing

co

nd

itions

Votin

g re

form

; vote

s are

re

cord

ed

on p

ap

er b

allo

t but

the v

ote

r rem

ain

s anonym

ous

Theory

that im

mig

rants

beco

me a

ssimila

ted

into

“A

merica

n C

ultu

re”

Idea th

at b

usin

ess o

pera

tes

best w

hen u

nre

gula

ted

by

the g

overn

ment; F

rench

for

“leave it a

lone”

Ballo

t item

which

allo

ws th

e

pub

lic rath

er th

an th

e le

gisla

ture

to a

pp

rove o

r reje

ct a la

w

18

83

refo

rm re

quirin

g

civil se

rvice

exam

s for

govern

ment e

mp

loyees

Pla

ce w

here

fam

ilies

could

go fo

r the d

ay to

rid

e ro

ller co

aste

rs &

Ferris w

heels (e

x: C

oney

Island

)

Pow

er o

f a u

nio

n to

neg

otia

te a

contra

ct for a

ll its m

em

bers a

t a sin

gle

tim

e

Org

aniza

tion o

f work

ers

Party

org

aniza

tion w

hich

co

ntro

ls city p

olitics

Refo

rm m

ovem

ent o

f w

este

rn fa

rmers

Financier of corporate mergers

Founder and president of the American Federation of

Labor (AF of L)

Early “muckraker”, author of How the Other Half Lives

Father of city parks; designer of NYC’s Central Park

Grover Cleveland

Most prolific inventor of the late 1800s & early 1900s: light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera,

direct current, etc.

Only president to serve non-consectuive terms; attacked

by “Ma! Ma! Where’s My Pa?”

Boss T

weed

Head

of N

YC

’ss Dem

ocra

tic m

ach

ine (T

am

many H

all)

When a

ll busin

esse

s in

volv

ed

in th

e p

rod

uctio

n

pro

cess m

erg

e to

geth

er

Thomas Edison

President of the Confederacy

Jan

e A

dd

am

s

They ca

me fro

m p

oor re

gio

ns

of A

sia a

nd

Euro

pe

Jacob Riis Frederick Law Olmstead

Alexander Graham Bell

James Garfield Ulysses S. Grant Cornelius Vanderbilt

John D. Rockefeller George Westinghouse

J.P. Morgan Samuel Gompers

Hiram Revels Chester A. Arthur Charles Guiteau William T. ShermanAuthor of A Century of

DishonorPen name used by the authors

of The Federalist Paper Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Man credited with the Invention of the telephone in

1876

President assassinated by angry office-seeker Charles

Guiteau

Former Union general and reconstruction president

whose administration was rife with corruption

The first industrial tycoon, nicknamed the

“Commodore”; his business was shipping and RRs

Oil tycoon; master of Standard Oil Trust

Inventor and advocate of the alternating current standard

Ste

el ty

coon; h

e liv

ed

a

“rag

s to rich

es” life

, p

rocla

imed

the “G

osp

el o

f W

ealth

”

Leon

Czo

lgosz

Hen

ry F

ord

William

McK

inle

yR

uth

erf

ord

B.

Hayes

An

dre

w C

arn

eg

ieS

cab

Eu

gen

e V

. D

eb

sP

inkert

on

Ed

win

Dra

ke

Mark

Tw

ain

Hora

tio A

lger

Th

om

as N

ast

Herb

ert

Sp

en

cer

Georg

e P

ullm

an

Rep

lace

ment w

ork

er

bro

ug

ht in

to b

reak a

strike

Found

er o

f the A

merica

n

Railw

ay U

nio

n; le

ad

er o

f th

e P

ullm

an S

trike

Priv

ate

dete

ctives h

ired

to

infiltra

te u

nio

ns a

nd

bre

ak

strikes

Invento

r of a

new

typ

e

of o

il drill

Auth

or o

f Huck

Fin

n a

nd

Tom

Saw

yer; ca

lled

late

1

80

0s th

e “G

ilded

Ag

e”

Auth

or o

f dim

e n

ovels

which

ad

voca

ted

honesty

and

hard

work

, such

as

Rag

ged

Dick

Most fa

mous p

olitica

l ca

rtoonist o

f the G

ilded

A

ge; a

ttack

ed

corru

ptio

n

Socia

l refo

rmer w

ho cre

ate

d H

ull

House

in C

hica

go to

help

im

mig

rants

British

eco

nom

ist; coin

ed

the

phra

se “su

rviv

al o

f the

fitte

st”; “Socia

l Darw

inism

”

Railro

ad

op

era

tor w

ho

create

d a

“com

pany to

wn” in

his o

wn n

am

e in

Pennsy

lvania

Court o

rder d

em

and

ing

an

imm

ed

iate

stop

to a

certa

in

actio

n, su

ch a

s a strik

e

Anti-co

rrup

tion R

ep

ub

licans w

ho

vote

d fo

r Dem

ocra

tic pre

sidentia

l ca

nd

idate

Gro

ver C

levela

nd

in

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