The Rise of Big Business and Labor

A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones

• nativism

• racism

• humanism

• rationalism

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

• Trans-Siberian Railroad

• The Underground Railroad

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Santa Fe Railroad

(1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.

• Horizontal Integration

• Social Darwinism

• Laissez-faire

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Reception center in New York Harbor through which most European immigrants to America were processed from 1892 to 1954.

• Jekyll Island

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Liberty Island

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

• Horizontal Integration

• Melting Pot Theory

• Urbanization

• Nativism

Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived

• shanty towns

• condominiums

• tenements

• appartments

Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution

• Vertical Integration

• Laissez-faire

• Horizontal Integration

• Suffrage

American culture is a blend of many different cultures

• Nativism

• Melting Pot Theory

• Urbanization

• Laissez-faire

Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level

• Laissez-faire

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

• magnate

a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes

• philanthropist

• magnate

• Social Darwinism

• Muckrakers