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1 Industrial Age & Immigration Vocab US History Honors

2 Industrial Age Industrial Revolution: the replacement of hand tools with machines and the development of large- scale industrial production Bessemer process: method developed in the mid- 1800s for making steel more efficiently entrepreneur: person who invests money in a product or business with the goal of making a profit

3 Industrial Age laissez-faire: lenient, as in the absence of government control over private business mass production: production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines corporation: company recognized as a legal unit that has rights and liabilities separate from each of its members

4 Industrial Age monopoly: exclusive control by one company over an entire industry trust: group of separate companies that are placed under the control of a single managing board in order to form a monopoly Sherman Antitrust Act: 1890 law banning any trust that retrained interstate trade or commerce

5 Industrial Age Interstate Commerce Commission: first federal agency monitoring business operations, created in 1887 to oversee interstate railroad procedures sweatshop: small factory where employees have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay Social Darwinism: the belief held by some in the late 19 th century that certain nations and races were superior to others and therefore destined to rule over them

6 Industrial Age company town: community whose residents rely upon one company for jobs, housing, & shopping American Federation of Labor: labor union that organized skilled workers in a specific trade and made specific demands rather than seeking broad changes Knights of Labor: labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms

7 Industrial Age collective bargaining: process in which employees negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages and other work related conditions Haymarket Riot: 1886 labor related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence Homestead Strike: 1892 strike against Carnegie’s steelworks in Homestead, Pennsylvania Pullman Strike: violent 1894 railway workers’ strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide

8 Immigration melting pot: a mixture of people from different cultures and races who blend together by abandoning their native language and cultures nativism: favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people (prejudice against newcomers) urbanization: expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them

9 Immigration steerage: third class accommodations on a steamship Gilded Age: term coined by Mark Twain to describe the façade of prosperity tenement: multistory building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible

10 Immigration Ellis Island: immigration processing station that opened in New York Harbor Angel Island: immigration processing station that opened in San Francisco Bay Chinese Exclusion Act: 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers


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