| A | B |
|---|
| Andrew Carnegie | Owner of U.S. Steel; used vertical integration |
| John Rockefeller | Owner of Standard Oil; used horizontal integration |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | law designed to stop monopolies |
| Social Darwinism | “Survival of Fittest” approach used by Robber Barons |
| Trust | buying competing businesses & running them together |
| Monopoly | getting rid of all competition |
| Vertical Integration | owning every step in making 1 single product |
| Horizontal Integration | owning all competing businesses of the same type |
| Knights of Labor | labor union that accepted any & all workers |
| American Federation of Labor | labor union that only wanted skilled workers |
| Haymarket Riot | Strike where bomb kills police; Public turns against Unions |
| Homestead Strike | Strike where Henry Frick hires Pinkertons to break the strike |
| Great Strike of 1877 | 1st major strike; involved Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |
| Collective Bargaining | workers uniting to have larger voice & representation |
| Strike | refusing to work in order to get improvements |
| Gilded Age | term describing “false” appearance of the US |
| “Old” Immigrants | before 1880; came from Western Europe |
| “New” Immigrants | workers after 1880; came from Southern & Eastern Europe |
| Urbanization | growing of cities due to rise in immigration |
| Ellis Island | major processing station for immigrants in New York |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | law created to keep Asian immigration down |
| Jane Addams | lady who creates Hull House settlement house |
| Alexander Graham Bell | creates telephone |
| Thomas Edison | creates first light bulb at Menlo Park; General Electric |
| J.P. Morgan | Robber Baron banker who bought Carnegie Steel |
