Steel Industry
Transcontinental Impact of railroads John D.
on west
Rockefeller
Railroad
Standard Oil Company
Trust
Monopoly
Thomas Edison
Ellis Island
Immigration
American Federation
of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Sitting Bull
Wounded Knee
Pullman Strike
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Progressive Era
Jane Addams
Hull House
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson NAACP
Ida Tarbell
Initiative
Referendum
Muckraker
17th Amendment
Chinese Exclusion
Act of 1882
Recall
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Steel Industry – An industry that grew to support railroads.
(SSUSH11a)
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Transcontinental Railroad – Connected the West Coast to the
rest of the nation.
(SSUSH11a)
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Impact of railroads on the West: (1) Connected the West Coast
to the rest of the nation (2) transported settlers west and goods
back east (3) railroad companies sold land for farming.
(SSUSH11a)
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John D. Rockefeller: He created a monopoly and the trust and
was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the
Standard Oil Company.
(SSUSH11c)
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Standard Oil Company: Founded by John D.
Rockefeller; became a monopoly.
(SSUSH11c)
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Trust – A corporation made up of many companies
that receive certificates entitling them to dividends on
profits earned.
(SSUSH11c)
Monopoly: A market in which one company has
complete control over an industry’s production, quality,
wages paid, and prices charged.
(SSUSH11c)
Thomas Edison: Inventor; light bulb, motion pictures
and phonograph.
(SSUSH11d)
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• Ellis Island: New York harbor; Statue of Liberty; location
where 19th century eastern European immigrants most
likely to pass before gaining entry into the United States?
(SSUSH12a)
• Immigration: Those immigrants coming to America
tended to live together in ghettos, along with other
immigrants with whom they shared the same
language and cultural background.
• American Federation of Labor (AFL): Organization
stared by Samuel Gompers that focused on collective
bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic.
(SSUSH12b)
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• Samuel Gompers: Leader/founder of the American
Federation of Labor.
(SSUSH12b)
• Sitting Bull: Native American Sioux Chief; never signed
the Treaty of Fort Laramie. He defeated the US Army at
the Little Bighorn; encouraged the Ghost Dance
movement, and was eventually killed during an attempt
by reservation police to arrest him.
(SSUSH12c)
• Wounded Knee: called a massacre; marked the end of
the wars between the federal government and the Plains
Indians.
(SSUSH12c)
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• Pullman Strike: Example of industrial unrest among
factory & railroad workers concerning hours, pay and
benefits.
(SSUSH12d)
• The Jungle: Written by Upton Sinclair; Pres. Teddy
Roosevelt responded to this book by appointing a
commission to investigate the meatpacking industry.
(SSUSH13a)
• Progressive Era: Period of time when many reforms in
society were made by the government.
(SSUSH11a)
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• Jane Addams: Early 20th century reformer opened Hull
House as a settlement house to help the poor and
immigrants.
(SSUSH13b)
• Hull House: Settlement house to help immigrants settle
into the big cities and the U.S. Started by Jane Addams.
(SSUSH13b)
• Jim Crow Laws: Laws adopted by some southern
states to enforce legal segregation.
(SSUSH13c)
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• Plessy v Ferguson: The Supreme Court decision ruled
that separation of races in public accommodations was
legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. It
established the principle of “separate but equal”
(SSUSH13c)
• NAACP: Primary goal was to achieve equality among
the races.
(SSUSH13c)
• Ida Tarbell: A muckraker who wrote about John D.
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company and the problems
with big businesses becoming monopolies. (SSUSH13d)
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• Initiative: This is a process in which citizen put
proposed new law directly on the ballot. (SSUSH13e)
• Referendum: A process that allows citizens to approve
or reject a law passed by a legislature (voting on an
initiative).
(SSUSH13e)
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - Decreased greatly or
stop the flow of all Chinese immigrants into the US.
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• Recall: Enabled voters to remove public officials from
elected positions by forcing them to face an election
before the end of their term if enough voters requested it.
(SSUSH13e)
• Muckraker: Journalists and authors who uncovered
corruption in big business. Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell
and Jane Addams.
(SSUSH13)
• 17th Amendment: Progressive reform that enabled
voters to directly elect senators.
(SSUSH13e)