Vocabulary Review

Due to the increase of factories, populations in cities began to grow very quickly. What term best describes this? urbanization

Americans born in the United States pushed to stop immigration of the Chinese to the U.S. in the 1880s. What term best describes the idea supported by these anti-immigrant Americans? Nativism

Workers belonged to groups that would help them fight for better working conditions. What were these groups known as? Labor Unions

Many workers, who disapproved of their hours and wages, would take this action against their companies. Strike

When immigrants came to the United States, settlement houses held classes to try to teach them English and about American culture. What goal were these settlement houses trying to achieve? Americanization

The Northern Securities company combined 3 railroad companies into one to control the industry. What did these robber barons create? monopoly

If AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile all worked together to set the same market prices, what have they created? trust

Boss Tweed was the head of this corrupt practice in the city of government of New York. Political Machine

Vanderbilt, Carnegie and Rockefeller all started big businesses to make a lot of money. What are these businesses called? Corporation

Upton Sinclair was a ___________ who exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry in Chicago. muckraker

Women fought for ___________ and eventually gained it through the 19th amendment. suffrage

Theodore Roosevelt, labor unions and women all believed in this idea to make working conditions and equality better in the United States. Progressivism

These buildings were constructed in the cities to house all of the workers and immigrants moving there. Tenements

Many Robber Barons believe in the idea of ____________________ that only the best businesses deserved to thrive. Social Darwinism

Horizontal consolidation Vanderbilt believed in ___________________ which was buying up all of his competition or putting them out of business in order to control the market. Horizontal consolidation

Vertical consolidation Carnegie believed in buying up all businesses that were part of the steel making/selling process to ensure he had no major competitors. He supported the idea of _____________________________. Vertical consolidation