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• The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay.

• An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892 in New York, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy

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  Communication device invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1986.

• an 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States

• a negative term for business leaders that implied they built their fortunes by stealing from the public

Angel Island

Ellis Island

Telephone

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Robber Barons

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• Ellis Island

• Telephone

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Robber Barons

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• faster, more practical means of transporting goods, lowered production costs, created national markets, served as a model for big business, stimulated other industries

• An example of big business that was made possible by Captain of Industry Andrew Carnegie. It helped fuel industrialism in America and the manufacturing center was Pittsburgh

• Term used to describe the corporations and monopolies since the industrial revolution of the late 1800s.

• Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west

• the immigrant work force responsibie for building the trans-continental Railroad

Railroad Industry

Steel Industry

Big Business

Transcontinental Railroad

Chinese Labor

• Railroad Industry

• Steel Industry

• Big Business

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Chinese Labor

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• was also linked to the growing railroad industry of the period. Drilling for oil in remote areas meant that the product had to be transported east for consumption as a fuel supply. The railroads made the transport possible from pipelines to the market.

• exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices

• was known for his economy, precision, and foresight in creating one of America's landmark corporations - Standard Oil. he became the world's richest man and first U.S. dollar billionaire, and is often regarded as the richest person in history

• Firms or corporations that combine for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices (establishing a monopoly). There are anti-trust laws to prevent these monopolies.

• hn D. Rockefeller's company, formed in 1870, which came to symbolize the trusts and monopolies of the Gilded age. By 1877 it controlled 95% of the oil refineries in the U.S.

oil industry

Monopoly

John D. Rockefeller

Trusts

Standard Oil Company

• oil industry

• Monopoly

• John D. Rockefeller

• Trusts

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• A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

• American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.

• Invented by Thomas Edison, changed life forever due to being able to work beyond sunlight hours.

• A machine used to communicate at a distance over a wire developed by Samuel Morse.

• 1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor

Andrew Carnegie

Thomas Edison

Incandescent Light Bulb

Telegraph

Gilded Agen

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Edison

• Incandescent Light Bulb

• Telegraph

• Gilded Agen