Study Guide for Topic 1



  • Americanization Movement
  • Vertical & Horizontal integration
  • Captain of Industry vs. Robber Baron
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
    • What did it enforce?
    • Effects?
  • Company Towns / Wage Slavery - How did they work?
  • Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
  • Mary Harris (“Mother”) Jones
  • Immigrant Process
    • Steerage
    • Ellis Island/Angel Island
    • How were they treated? Who got in? Who got sent back?
  • Horatio Alger
  • Haymarket Square Riot
  • Jacob Riis - How the Other Half Lives
  • John Wanamaker
  • Labor Unions:
    • Knights of Labor
    • American Federation of Labor
    • Leaders?
    • Similarities/Differences?
  • Nativism
  • Protective tariffs - How do they help American business? How can they be harmful to American business?
  • Pullman Strike (1894) - Outcome & Long-term impact?
  • “Push” and “Pull” factors leading immigrants to the United States. What were “chain” immigrants?
  • Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) - What was it designed to do? Was it effective?
  • Social Darwinism
  • Tin Pan Alley - Why was it important to the music industry?
  • Zoning Laws
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