USHistoryUnit7Review

Agreements among companies to keep prices at a certain level were known as

The Central Pacific Railroad began as the dream of engineer

By linking the nation, railroads helped increase the size of markets for

By the 1890s, immigrants often lived in neighborhoods that were separated into __ groups.

It made sense for big corporations to continue operating during poor economic times because

In the late nineteenth century, southern states passed Jim Crow laws in order to

The 1894 Pullman strike was halted by?

Crime was a problem in American cities in the late 19th century, but even bigger threats were

Many labor unions opposed immigration, arguing that most immigrants

____________________ are people who risk their capital in organizing and running a business.

Corporations issue stock to

Which of the following Af Am leaders was concerned with exercising voting rights?

In which American city did the first salaried baseball team play?

In 1896, the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the doctrine of

The wave of immigrants that arrived in the late nineteenth century changed American society by

Mark Twain used a local dialect in order to

One of the most famous and successful railroad consolidators was ___________________.

In the late 19th century, Chinese immigrants mainly settled in Western_______.

The first nationwide labor protest was the

One reason the United States industrialized so rapidly in the 1800s was because it

One reason for America’s industrial success was its

William M. Tweed was

By the early 1900s, Americans had transformed the United States into the world’s leading

Tammany Hall was the name of a

Some Americans feared that the____ Church would become too powerful in the US.

The __ motive, or hope to make money, attracted people of high ability and ambition into bus.

Who invented the telephone, which revolutionized both business and personal communication?

Grangers created cooperatives that were intended to

Workers who tried to organize a union or strike were often fired and placed on a

Railroad companies raised most of the money that they needed to build their railroads from

A nation’s ____________ is the total value of all goods and services it produces during a year.

In the Crédit Mobilier scandal, Union Pacific investors got rich by

The first leader of the AFL, Samuel Gompers, believed that unions should stay out of

The wave of immigration led to increased feelings of_______, an extreme dislike of foreigners.

Social Darwinism was used by some industrial leaders to justify

____________________ costs are costs a company has to pay whether or not it is operating.

On voyages across the Atlantic, most immigrants booked passage in _____.

The economic doctrine of ___, opposed any government programs that interfered with business.

Booker T. Washington urged African Americans to

Nativism in the late 1800s was focused on Asian immigrants, Jewish immigrants, and

N.W. Ayer and Son developed bold new formats for

A single company that achieves control of an entire market is a ____________________.

The Social Gospel movement worked to better conditions in cities according to

Most working-class people in cities lived in ___, dark and crowded multifamily apartment bldgs.

Which transcontinental RR operated without gov't subsidies and was the only one not bankrupt?

Adapted from French theater, _ in the early 1880s was a hodgepodge of animal acts, and dancers.

Which of the following best completes the entry point for Asian immigrants?

Loans, mortgages, and taxes are an example of a company’s

The railroad boom began in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the

In public schools, immigrant children learned English and about America, a process known as