Gilded Age Flashcards

2595601714	Thomas Edison	World's first research lab, perfected incandescent & a system for producing and distributing electricity	0
2595604310	Alexander Graham Bell	Invented the telephone	1
2595604698	Edwin L. Drake	Used a steam engine to drill for oil	2
2595606219	Bessemer Process	Inject air into molten iron to remove carbon, etc.	3
2595609186	Transcontinental Railroad	U.S. intercontinental railroad system	4
2595611433	George M. Pullman	Made a factory for making railroad cars	5
2595612816	Munn V. Illinois	States won the right to regulate the railroad	6
2595614212	Interstate Commerce Act	Federal government supervises railroad activities & established a five person interstate commerce commission	7
2595619126	Andrew Carnegie	One of the first industrial moguls to make his own fortune	8
2595621219	Vertical Integration	Process where suppliers are bought out	9
2595622876	Horizontal Integration	Companies producing similar products merge together	10
2595624344	Social Darwinism	Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution	11
2595626909	John D. Rockefeller	Joined with competing companies in trust agreements	12
2595628157	Sherman Antitrust Act	Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states and or other countries	13
2595630005	Nativism	Favoritism towards native-born Americans	14
2595631913	Urbanization	The growth of cities, mostly in the Northeast & Midwest	15
2595633536	Americanization Movement	To assimilate people of many cultures into the dominant (American) culture	16
2595635038	Social Gospel Movement	Preached salvation through service to the poor	17
2595635878	Settlement Houses	Community centers in slums that provided assistance to those in the area	18
2595637467	Political Machine	Offered services to voters in exchange for political or financial support	19
2595639147	Graft	The illegal use of political influence for personal gain	20
2595640344	Partonage	Giving government jobs to people who helped get the president elected	21
2595641956	Civil Service	Giving government jobs to citizens to help them	22
2595644835	Rutherford Hayes	Republican president, 1876	23
2595646140	Grover Cleaveland	As president he tried to lowers tariffs, but Congress refused to support his acts	24
2595647506	Benjamin Harrison	Grandson of President William Henry Harrison. His campaign was financed by large contributions from companies	25
2595654579	Industrialization	The process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one.	26
2595657020	Laissez-Faire	The policy that is based on the idea that governments and the law should not interfere with business, finance, or the conditions of people's working lives	27
2595660690	Melting Pot	A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society.	28
2595663557	Labor Unions	An organization that represents the rights and interests of workers to their employers, for example in order to improve working conditions or wages.	29