Industrial Revolution

2. Wanted to say in their government, escape political turmoil, religious freedom, escape poverty, starvation, economic opportunity. 25,00 Chinese came for gold rush.
6. Immigrants were checked for diseases, defects, mental or physical health problems.
9. Entrepreneur in the oil industry. Created the Standard Oil Company.
10. Entrepreneur who used the bessemer process to create a steel company. He used vertical integration in his steel company
11. Not the poor class, but not the wealthiest class either.
12. 1897 Boston put the cars underground
17. Eastern immigration station in the U.S.
18. Elisha Otis invented in 1850’s
19. housing on the outskirts of the cities for those who could afford mass transit.
20. Entrepreneur who bought 4 railroad companies and consolidated them into one.
21. Buying all of your competitors and making your business succeed. This is also known as a monopoly.
22. Buying all the steps to making and selling your product.
23. Argument that only the fittest animals survive to reproduce in the wild. It was applied to Americans during this time period.
24. Negative reason why people left their country to come to America
27. First nation’s strike and it started since the owner cut the employees wages.
28. Entrepreneur who created the Pullman Car Company. He created a town for his employees.
29. Where is the steerage of the ship? The top, middle, or bottom?

1. A period of time when America went from a farming country to a manufacturing country.
3. a business where many people shared ownership.
4. Carnegie cut worker’s wages, which caused them to go on strike. Several strikers were killed.
5. process in which Henry Bessemer purified iron into steel.
7. Banned any more Chinese people from coming to America. The Chinese people that lived there before were fine to be there.
8. Western immigration station in the U.S.
13. Positive reason which attracted people to come to America.
14. Economic opportunities. 90,000 Chinese and 10,000 Japanese
15. Law passed by the government which outlawed trusts.
16. people who build and manage businesses to make profit
24. Nearly 300,000 workers refused to work on trains if they had Pullman cars on them. For the first time, the federal government took action against the strike since it interfered with mail delivery.
25. A labor protest which turned into a riot when someone threw a bomb at the police. At least 8 people were found dead.
26. First person in the family to come to America to help earn money to bring his family there too. (not the eldest son)