VA/US: Gilded Age

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Banned Chinese immigration to US for 10 years

Immigration Restriction Act (1921)

Created a quota system- restricts immigration except Northwest Europe

Cities that grew

Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and NYC

Where was the subway sustem?

NYC

Where was the trolley system?

Richmond Va

Discoverer of Electricity + the Light Bulb

Thomas Edison

Creator of the Bessemer Process

Henry Bessemer

What did the Bessemer process do?

Made steel cheaper and lighter

Creator of the Assembly Line

Henry Ford

Benefit of the assembly line for Henry Ford

Made his cars affordable

Creator of Airplane, 1at Powered flight

Wright brothers

Creator of the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

Who created railroads?

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Made his fortune in shipping and railroads

• Used vertical integration to control every part of the industry

JP Morgan

• powerful banker and investor

• Bought carnegie steel and created US steel

• Bailed out the government during financial crises

John D Rockefeller

• founded standard oil company

• Became the richest man in US history

• Used horizontal integration by buying or crushing competing companies

• Controlled about 90% of America’s oil industry

Vertical Integration

A business expands by controlling multiple stages of production of its own product

Horizontal Integration

A business expands by taking control of its competition (buying it) and increases production of its own product

Haymarket Square Riot

Led to the demise of the Knights of Labor

Homestead Strike

by Carnegie Steel workers in response to wage reduction

Pullman Strike

by railroad workers

Jacob Riis

Photographer