Moving from rural areas to cities

• Industrialization
• Urbanization
• Immigration
• Nativism

Building factories to make goods cheap, fast and in large quantities.

• Industrialization
• Urbanization
• Immigration
• Nativism

Standard Oil(Rockefeller's company) is an example of this

• Assembly Line
• Monopoly
• Tenement
• Muckraker

Supporters of laissez-faire believed the government should

• take a "hands-off" approach to managing the the economy.

• interfere in the economy to keep prices from rising too much.

• ONLY interfere to bring the country out an economic crisis.

• control every aspect of the economy.

Combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one

• vertical integration

• a holding company

• horizontal integration

• a monopoly.

When a company owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for its operation...

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

• trust

• a holding company

The first nationwide union was the

• Women's Trade Union League

• Knights of Labor.

• National Labor Union.

• American Federation of Labor.

Why did immigrants move to the United States?

• Opportunity

• Taco Tuesdays

• Arranged marriages

• Religious freedom

__?__ was equally as important as natural resources in the nation's rapid industrialization.

• The political system

• A new tariff law

• New technology

• Increased population

A period of explosive growth in U.S. manufacturing  and industry in the late 1800s. 

• Settlement Houses
• Industrial Revolution
• Bessemer Process
• Hull Houses