U.S. Industrial Revolution Vocabulary

natural resource necessary in the building of railroad tracks

• steel

• oil

• iron

Chinese immigrants went through this in San Francisco

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

This type of integration is when company in a particular industry merges or buys out companies producing similar products.

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

24 million of these come to the U.S. in this period due to industry, the railroad, and the growth of cities

• immigrants

• factories

• Bessemer Process

complete control of one company over an industry's production, wages, and prices.

• monopoly

• vertical integration

• corporations

robber baron, had a monopoly in oil

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.D. Rockefeller

• vertical integration

Big Business men who used ruthless tactics to succeed in railroad, oil, and steel businesses

• robber barons

• monopoly

• Andrew Carnegie

vertical city

• metropolis

• Los Angeles

• Bessemer Process

Eastern and Southern Europeans went through this island in New York

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• metropolis

natural resource, steam from this used to move ships and trains

• oil

• coal

• steel