US History Chapter 14 -16

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

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 

Captain of the Oil industry, richest man in American history.

• John D. Rockefeller
• Henry Ford
• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Captain of the Steel industry, big philanthropist (gave away $$$).

• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Andrew Carnegie
• JP Morgan
• Henry Ford

Advocates for women's rights during the Gilded Age pushed for __?__, or a women's right to vote.

• prohibition

• suffrage

• temperance

• referendums

The Bessemer Process was an innovation in the production of cheaper, stronger

• houses

• iron

• mines

• steel