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Industrial Revolution & Immigration

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Inventor of lightbulb, phonograph, and movie projector

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Railroad tycoon

Robber Baron, banking & steel

Cyrus McCormick

Mass Production to automobile industry

Andrew Carnegie

Made millions producing steel

Alexander Graham Bell

Invented the telephone

Improved the sewing machine

John Rockefeller

Made millions in oil

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Banned the formation of trusts or monopolies

Mass Production

Idea that things could be better if you used interchangeable parts and specific jobs

Captain of Industry

Positive name for men who were getting rich through entrepreneurship and new inventions

Belief that government should stay out of government affairs

Organizations that controlled an entire industry

Cutthroat Competition

Means you are willing to use any means necessary to destroy your rivals

Idea that property and business should be owned by private individuals and companies

Social Darwinism

Belief that profits help the strong to survive and the lazy and weak will perish because of a lack of motivation

People who invested their money in new business and ideas

Negative name for men who were getting rich through entrepreneurship and new inventions

Angel of miners

High tariff help

Would raise the price of foreign goods allowing the U.S. products to compete

Cause of urban growth in the 19th century

Expansion of industry

"New" immigrants from Eastern & Southern Europe

Had funds in reserve

The east coast immigration processing center.

These people worried that immigrants undermined their job security and formed anti-immigration units

Fear of immigrants

Invented the concept of interchangeable parts

Believed that only the strongest will survive and weak shall perish

period of rebuilding after the Civil War

Organized groups of white southerners that terrorized African Americans

Separation of races

Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

Each state had to ratify the 13th amendment, did not want americans to vote.

Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan

when 10% of a states voters took a loyalty oath to the union, they could make a new government

Laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them landless workers

laws that were aimed at keeping african americans and white segregated

Booker T. Washington

Called on african americans to "pull themselves up from their own bootstraps" bu building up their economic resources and establishing their reputations as hardworking and honest citizens

argued that african americans should demand full and immediate equality and not limit themselves to vocational education

Emancipation Proclamation

Declared all slaves in south are free

Goals of labor untions

-ensure fair wages
-make safe working conditions
-reasonable work times/schedules

Tactics used by labor unions

-strike
-boycotts
-walkouts

type of transportation that led to the industrial boom

railroad/ train

type of building material that led to the industrial boom

type of energy source that led to the industrial boom

coal/fossil fuels

type of communication that led to the industrial boom

what did factory owners do to oppose labor unions/strikes

-get police/detectives involved(violence/shooting)
-fire union organizers

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