History Creators

Laissez-faire

a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

influential inventions

Things made to make human life easier like the printing press, electricity, cars, and telephones

vertical integration

The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.

horizontal integration

a business operating at the same level of the value chain

Marxism

the theory and practice of communism.

Major strikes

Events that deeply affected a group of people

Push factor

“push” people away from their home and include things like war.

Pull factor

“pull” people to a new home and include things like better opportunities

ellis island

historical site that opened in 1892 as an immigration station

Angel island

processing center for prisoners of war

Factors that influences industrial growth

Capital investment, labor input, financial investment and technological progress are factors that affecting the growth of industrial economy.

Response to immigration boom

Often stereotyped and discriminated against, many immigrants suffered verbal and physical abuse because they were "different."

Chinese exclusion act

all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.

The gilded age

a time of rapid economic growth in the Northern and Western United States

Social darwinism

the practice of misapplying the biological evolutionary language of Charles Darwin to politics, the economy, and society.

Gospel of wealth

the rich needed to give back to the poor

Social gospel

a movement in American Protestant Christianity especially in the first part of the 20th century to bring the social order into conformity with Christian principles.

Populism

anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment.

Patrons of husbandry/the grange-farmers alliance

Made to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States.

Rise of segregation

Jim Crow laws

Jim crow

state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the South

Thomas edison

An American inventor and businessman

Alexander graham bell

scientist/engineer & made first telephone

Cornelius vanderbilt

controlled steamboat/railroad industry

Jay gould

American railroad magnate/Robber barons of the Gilded Age.

James j hill

Canadian-American railroad director.

Andrew carnegie

Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.

John d rockfeller

an American business magnate and philanthropist.

Karl marx

German philosopher

Samuel gompers

cigar maker, labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.

Eugene v debs

one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World

Mark twain

an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

Jane addams

an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author

Ida b wells

an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement

Booker t washington

an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States.

Web dubois

an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.