| A | B |
|---|
| Late 1800s | Gilded Age |
| Gilded Age | Beneath the weealth and properity were the problems associated with industrialization and the common worker |
| Robber Barons | Business tycoons |
| Andrew Carnegie | steel |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | railroads |
| John D. Rockefeller | oil |
| J.P. Morgan | banking |
| Bessemer process | make steel cheaper and more effectively |
| Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer process _____ | to make steel more cheaply |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph |
| Alexander G. Bell | invented the telephone |
| Thomas Alva Edison | invented the light bulb and the phonograph |
| Edison had a research laboratory at _____ | Menlo Park, NJ |
| Henry Ford | invented the Model T. Ford and used an assembly line to put it together |
| The Wright brothers | flew the first airplane |
| The "push factor" for emigrating were _____ | to escape poverty, political or religious persecution |
| "Pull factors" for emigrating were _____ | promise of freedom and economic opportunities |
| Old immigrants, up to the 1880s, were mostly from _____ | northern and western Europe |
| New immigrants, from 1890s to 1910s, were mostly from _____ | southern and eastern Europe |
| The _____ restricted immigration. | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Main immigration processing center | Ellis Island, NY |
| "Melting Pot" is a metaphor for immigration to America because _____ | ingredients in the pot (people from different cultures/religions) are combined to lose their identities and form an American |
| _____ means mixing together to become an American and lose former cultural identity | assimilation |
| Immigrants usually settled in _____ | neighborhood enclaves, such as Little Italy or Chinatown where most residents were of Italian or Chinese descent |
| Problems with cities (dark side) included _____ | child labor, poor sanitation, crime, overcrowding in tenements or ghettos, political corruption |
| An example of a "political machine" is _____ | Tammany Hall |
| An example of a "boss" in politics was _____ | Boss Tweed |
| Factory conditions were _____ | unregulated (poor working conditions) |
| A company that has exclusive control of an industry is called _____ | a monopoly |
