Unit III Study Guide
Unit 3 Study Guide
Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization, Gilded Age politics Ch4ALL, Ch5ALL, Ch7S2
Terms:
Horatio Alger
Industrialization
Entrepreneurs
Protective tariffs
Laissez-faire
Patent
copyright
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Bessemer process
Time zones
Mass production
Corporation
monopoly
cartel
John D. Rockefeller/Standard Oil
Andrew Carnegie/US Steel
“The Gospel of Wealth”
Horizontal integration
Vertical integration
Social Darwinism
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
sweatshops
company towns
collective bargaining
Knights of Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Court injunction
Eugene V. Debs
Gilded Age/Mark Twain
Spoils system
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Old v. New Immigrants
steerage
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gold Mountain
Americanization
“melting pot”
nativism
urbanization
skyscrapers
tenements
mass transit
suburbs
department stores
vaudeville/burlesque
Frederick Law Olmstead
Conspicuous consumerism
Mass culture
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Yellow journalism
Short answer.
1. Identify the factors that led to the growth of industry.
2. Trusts – good or bad?
3. What government policies contributed to the growth of industry?
4. How did entrepreneurs like Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Morgan contribute to the growth of industry?
5. What were the goals of organized labor?
6. What tools did unions use to achieve their goals?
7. What tools did owners use against organized labor?
8. To what extent (how much) was organized labor successful in achieving its goals in the late 1800s?
9. How was industrialization related to political corruption?
10. What were the problems associated with the spoils system?
11. How did political machines work, and what were the positives and negatives about them?
12. What were the social, political, and economic results of the rapid industrialization of the late 1800s?
13. Compare/contrast old and new immigrants.
14. What push/pull factors brought new immigrants to the United States?
15. Identify the problems that immigrants faced in coming to America and adjusting to life in the United States.
16. What factors fueled the growth of cities in the late 1800s?
17. What problems were created by rapid urbanization? How did city managers attempt to address those problems?
18. What changes did the middle class experience during the late 1800s?
19. Identify the developments in urban culture in the late 1800s.
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