SOL 8 Industry, Immigration, Cities, AA

Mass production of steel

• Thomas Edison

• Wright brothers

• Henry Bessemer

• Alexander Graham Bell

Henry Ford was the first to use the _____, enabling mass production.

• Assembly line

• Electric lightbulb

• Telephone

• Steam engine

Leader of the steel industry; cut wages, leading to the Homestead Strike

• J.P. Morgan

• Henry Ford

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Andrew Carnegie

Standard Oil Monopoly

• J.P. Morgan

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

What was the government's approach to business during the Gilded Age (1877-1900)?

• Highly regulated environment

• State-run corporations

• Socialist policies

• Laissez-faire capitalism

Which did NOT help America industrialize?

• Abundant natural resources

• Immigrant labor supply

• Strict regulations and restrictions

• Some help from gov't (ex: land to RR companies)

Helped build the Transcontinental Railroad

Completely banned from immigrating to USA in 1882

• Chinese immigrants

• Irish immigrants

• German immigrants

• Italian immigrants

Most "new" immigrants (1877-1920) came from --

• Asia

• Northern and Western Europe

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Latin America

Helped immigrants assimilate

• Churches

• Political machines

• Ethnic neighborhoods

• Public schools

Growth of cities

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Mechanization

• Frustration