What connected the US with Europe for the 1st time in 1886?
The transatlantic telegraph cable
Which three industries grew as a result of demand for their products by the railroads?
steel, coal, and lumber
Who ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist?
Eugene V. Debs
Name the Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits
Carnegie
Who created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company?
Rockefeller
Who opened the way for worldwide communications with the invention of the telephone?
Alexander Bell
A supermarket buying up cattle ranches, railway cattle years, beef slaughterhouses, and butcher’s shops and a big department store chain buying cotton plantations, textile mills, and garment factories are both examples of?
Vertical Integration
A big oil company in Pennsylvania buying up al the other oil companies in the Northeast is an example of what?
Monopoly-horizontal integration
The blending together of cultures in America due to high immigration numbers in the late 19th century gave us what nickname?
Melting Pot
What was the name given to the anti-immigrant movement during a period of high immigration in the late 19th century?
Nativism
Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of what?
Skyscrapers, subways, and suspension bridges
What was the original purpose of tenements?
Housing for workers
What was set up as a location for processing incoming European immigrants arriving in New York?
Ellis Island
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
passed in 1882, was the first significant U.S. law to restrict immigration based on ethnicity or nationality
Name the place where the eastern and western parts of the Transcontinental Railroad met, linking both coasts of the US for the first time
Promontory Summit
