US 1 Honors-Unit 2: Development of the Industrial United States

Andrew Carnegie

A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.

Benjamin Harrison(1889-1893)

Signed the Sherman Antitrust Act(which wanted to prevent monopolies from dominating the industry), and was for increased tariffs.

Bimetallism

A currency where gold and silver were used.

Chinese Exclusion Act(1882)

This act stopped the immigration of all Chinese laborers.

Dawes Act(1887)

This act caused the division of many Native American reservations which made them lose a lot of land.

Exodusters

They were African Americans that moved to Kansas for better opportunities.

Grover Cleveland(1885-1889, 1893-1897)

22nd and 24th president, Democrat, Honest and hardworking, fought corruption, was against high tariffs and struggled with the Pullman Strike.

Homestead Act(1862)

Law that provided 160 acres of free land in the west if you lived on it for 5 years(increasing expansion).

Homesteaders

A person who used their land claimed under the Homestead Act for farming.

Industrial Boom

Rapid industrial growth due to new innovations and technology which reform the whole nation.

James A. Garfield

20th President of the US; he died two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration.

John D. Rockefeller

US industrialist and founder of the Standard Oil Company, dominated the Oil industry, and was the first American business trust.

Pullman Strike(1894)

A strike by railroad workers upset by drastic wage cuts. The strike was led by socialist Eugene Debs. Eventually President Grover Cleveland intervened, and federal troops forced an end to the strike. The strike highlighted the government's ability to use troops to shut down work strikes.

Rutherford B. Hayes(1877-1881)

He was the president that drafted the Compromise of 1877 during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age.

Scabs

Workers that replaced those who were striking against their employers for unsanitary conditions and little to no pay.

Soddy

A house made from mud and grass which are mostly found in the Great Plains.

Transcontinental Railroad(1869)

The largest railroad built in the nation which stretches across from the east to the west.

Trusts

They were an alliance of two corporations that worked together to control an industry(a monopoly with more people/companies involved).

Vertical Integration

Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the beginning to the end; this was used by Carnegie in the steel industry.

Wounded Knee Massacre(1890)

The U.S. Army killed about 300 Lakota Sioux(Native Americans) at the Wounded Knee Creek which is located in South Dakota. This stopped the rebellion of Native Americans against the government.