Unit #9 – Industrialization And Urbanization

Please copy the following vocabulary words in your notebook: Big Business: Large-scale or important financial or commercial activity. Entrepreneur: A person who invests money in a product or business with the goal of making a profit. Mass Production: Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.

Please copy the following vocabulary words in your notebook: 4) Monopoly: Exclusive control by one company over an entire industry. 5) Trust: A group of separate companies that are placed under the control of a single managing board in order to form a monopoly. 6) Transcontinental Railroad: Railway that linked the eastern and the western United States.

Please copy the following vocabulary words in your notebook: 7) Andrew Carnegie: Scottish born immigrant who consolidated the U.S. Steel Corporation into a monopoly, and who advocated philanthropy. 8) John D. Rockefeller: Businessman who consolidated the Standard Oil Company and made millions by forming a monopoly of the oil industry. 9) Thomas Edison: Famous inventor who patented the incandescent light bulb, film projector, and phonograph along with many other important inventions.

Please copy the following vocabulary words in your notebook: 10) “Melting Pot”: Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture. 11) Ellis Island: Island in New York harbor that served as an immigration station for millions of immigrants arriving to the United States. 12) Chinese Exclusion Act: 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers. 13) Tenement: Multi-story building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible. These were usually substandard housing.

Please copy the following vocabulary words in your notebook: 14) Sherman-Anti Trust: 1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce. 15) Teddy Roosevelt: An American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

Please copy the following vocabulary words in your notebook: 16) American Federation of Labor: Labor union that organized skilled workers into specific trade and specific demands rather than seeking broad changes. 17) Pullman Strike: Violent 1894 railway workers’ strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide. 18) Collective Bargaining: Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.

Please copy the following vocabulary words in your notebook: 19) Wounded Knee: About 300 Lakota Indians were massacred here by U.S. troops. This was the last major action b/w U.S. forces and Native American tribes. 20) Assimilate: The process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group. Native Americans were forced to become a part of the greater American society.