History Final; Immigration and etc.
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- Angel Island
- an immigrant inspection station in San Fransisco Bay for people arriving from Asia
- Horizontal Consolidation
- the merging of companies that make similar products
- Imperialism
- the policy of extending a nation's authority over other countires by economic, political, or military means
- Susan B. Anthony
- a leading proponent of woman suffrage. "I would sooner cut off my right hand that ask the ballot for the black man and not for women." Founded National Women Suffrage Association. Charged $100 for voting in the election of 1872 and never paid it
- Andrew Carnegie
- one of the first industrial moguls. Carnegie Steel Company. made better products cheaper, offered stock in company, almost controlled the steel company
- Alexander Bell
- invented the telephone.
- Transcontinental railroad
- a railroad linking the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of the United States, completed in 1869.
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- a law enacted in 1890, that was intended to prevent the reation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade.
- Monopoly
- complete control over its industry's production, wages, and prices.
- John Rockefeller
- established corporations like the Standard Oil Company.Later gave half of it away
- Social Darwinism
- an economic and social philosophy -supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection- holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest
- Populist Party
- A U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issue, free coinage of gold and silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax
- Women's Suffrage
- the right for women to vote
- Urbanization
- the growth of cities, mostly in Northeast and Mideast regions
- Graft
- the illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
- scab
- strikebreakers, used to keep Pinkerton Detective Agency operating
- Edison
- established first reseach laboratory and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Invented system for producing and distributing electrical power.
- Immigration
- To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native
- culture shock
- immigrants were shocked by how poorly they were treated and the other cultures that were in America. finding a place to live and finding a job was hard.
- Melting Pot
- a mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customes
- USS Maine
- a U.S. warship that mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba on February 15, 1898
- Vertical Integration
- a company's taking over its suppliers and distributers and transportation system to gain total control over the quality and cost of it's product
- Ellis Island
- an immigrant inspection station in New York Harbor