Chapter 18: Life in Industrial America

Thomas Edison

In September 1878, ________ announced a new and ambitious line of research and development- electric power and lighting.

Urbanization

________ and immigration fueled anxieties that old social mores were being subverted and that old forms of social and moral policing were increasingly inadequate.

White southerners

________ took back control of state and local governments and used their reclaimed power to disenfranchise African Americans and pass "Jim Crow "laws segregating schools, transportation, employment, and various public and private facilities.

Industrial capitalism

________ was the most important factor that drew immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920.

Industrialization

________ also remade much of American life outside the workplace.

large industrial complexes

Immigrant workers labored in ________ producing goods such as steel, textiles, and food products, replacing smaller and more local workshops.

From these foundations they facilitated even more immigration

after staking out a claim to some corner of American life, they wrote home and encouraged others to follow them → chain migration

Chain migration

______________ was when an immigrant would create foundations in the US, and then wrote home and encouraged family and friends to follow them

Lynching

Putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law, often turning into a spectacle

They created the first significant concentrations of capital, spawned the first massive corporations, united thousands of farmers and immigrants, linked many towns and cities

What was the impact of railroads?

Incorporation

___________________ was a legal innovation that protected shareholders

New bureaucratic companies and occupations

What created the "white collar" middle class?

That the South could turn its back to the past by embracing industrialization and diversified agriculture

What was the dream of the New South?

Ku Klux Klan

A secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves