Chapter 18: Industrializing America

Transcontinental railroad

________ made it possible to travel across the country in seven days.

Lumber

________ was used as fuel, building materials, railroad sleeping, and fencing.

Conspiracy statues

________ were aimed at unions and strikes by federal and states legislatures.

Telegraph network

________ was extremely popular and was a commodity.

Industrialization

________ increases the countrys dependence on the horse, with usages similar to a vehicles like cars and vans.

Conservative impulse

________ creates literature trying to teach women to be domestic.

White collar workers

________ have a different, unique middle- class identity.

Systematic weather forecast

________ started in 1869 with the Cincinnati Astronomical Observatory.

New York Democratic Party leader William Tweed

________ commissioned the building of sewers, and water and gas pipelines.

Jay Cooke

________ and Company bank failure causes a financial panic.

Comstock Act

The ________ of 1873 law banned obscene, indecent, or immoral material.

Wall Street

Banks, insurance companies, and exchangers establish their headquarters on or near ________.

Civil War

Companies were owned by industrialists and bankers who helped finance the Union during the ________.

Railroads

________ helped extend the mail and telegraph networks.

Second Empire

________: a type of architecture loved by wealthy Parisians.

Mass consumption

________: a culture where middle- class Americans associated happiness with purchasing goods that werent necessarily needed.

Monopolies

________: companies that control the market in a certain sector.

Private public partnerships

________ helped conceive construction booms and decreasing unemployment.

Modern corporation

________: developed first in the energy and railway sectors.

Department Store

Cathedrals of Consumption: The Rise of the ________.

Idea of nature

________ represents natural landscapes untouched by humanity.

Chapter 18

Industrializing America

Tramping

looking for unskilled jobs via transportation on trains without a ticket

1872

Chicagos Montgomery Ward dry goods store used railroads for the first mass-circulated mail catalog

Ex

manufacturers, mining companies, food growers, and service providers

Modern corporation

developed first in the energy and railway sectors

Monopolies

companies that control the market in a certain sector

Traditional practice of local timekeeping is now impractical

they need a new system

Adopted four regional time zones

Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific

important changes within wealthy classes too

owners see gain in wealth

March 1871

telegraph brings news of worker uprising in Paris as a means of protest against the government

Vagrancy laws

laws that resembled the southern black codes, requiring adults to carry proof of employment or a permanent household

Mass consumption

a culture where middle-class Americans associated happiness with purchasing goods that werent necessarily needed

Cathedrals of Consumption

The Rise of the Department Store

American dream

idea that with hard work, every AMerican could achieve their certain goal

Second Empire

a type of architecture loved by wealthy Parisians

Two different axes

one included government regulated scare resource distribution