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Unit 1 Exam Ch. 18 and 19A Flashcards

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1
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Andrew Carnegie (good and bad about him)

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He was a philanthropist but his employees underpaid, long hours, dangerous conditions.

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2
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Famous banker Tycoon

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JP Morgan

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3
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The start of Big Business/What were those aspects of big business

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bureaucracy, large corporations, new technology, capital investments, entrepreneurs.

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4
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What was the name of Rockerfeller’s company

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Standard Oil Trust

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5
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what is nativism?

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discrimination by native born of new immigrants/hated them, would steal from them, did not want them to succeed.

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6
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Burgess model of population around the city/shape?

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centric ring pattern (from inner: CBD central business district, factories, tenements (poor workers), middle class, upper class.)

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First skyscraper and when, where?

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Home Insurance Bldg, 1885, Chicago

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8
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Which reformer wrote “How the Other Half Lives” and when?

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Jacob Riis, 1889

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Aspects of a bureaucracy

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impersonal, hierarchy, rules to follow, multi-levels of management

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10
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What city was and is the nation’s transportation hub

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Chicago

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11
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Explain regional specialization

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raw materials in the west sent to industrial complex in the NE.

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12
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What is the industrial complex and where

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where goods from the west are sent to be processed and traded. In the NE.

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What did the new industrial cities offer people

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employment opportunities, pools of capital and labor, markets to sell goods.

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Who were the “new immigrants”

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Foreign born from southern and eastern Europe (jews, pols, russians, italians) - 1901-1910 (discriminated against for darker skin and poor)

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What company did Standard Oil Trust eventually become?

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Exxon Mobile

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what did some people call these new tycoons (slur)

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robber barons

17
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What was the new frontier?

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The city

18
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Who was the first billionaire and how did he make his fortune?

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John D. Rockerfeller/Oil refining (bought many refineries/controlled business by refining)

19
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What is morganization

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merging companies for efficiency as condition of lending money. Larger companies and more profits.

20
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What is the second innovation of Andrew Carnegie?

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Vertical integration: handle raw materials, manufacturing using Bessemer process, and distribution to railroads. (controlled the whole process/brings price down from 67 to 17 a ton).

21
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How many workers in the US died between 1880-1900

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35,000 workers

22
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who were “old immigrants”

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From North and Western Europe/from England, Germany, Scandinavia - 1881-1890

23
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First steel tycoon

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Andrew Carnegie

24
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First Big Business

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Railroads (steam engines)

25
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What became the first billion dollar company? Bought from Carnegie by who, and for how much?

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US Steel Company/bought by JP Morgan for $440 mil.

26
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What is the Bessemer process and how efficient was it/who utilized it?

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Converts iron into steel-15 minutes to make one rail as opposed to 2 days prior to that? Andrew Carnegie used it.

27
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Years of Northern urbanization

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1870-1900

28
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What company became the first monopoly

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Standard Oil Trust

29
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When did steel production spike

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WWI-1914-military use (battle ships and tanks)

30
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What is the name of the first famous union

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AFL (American Federation of Labor)

31
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Who did the American Federation of Labor help

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Skilled, native born workers

32
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First Tycoon and what he produced

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Cornelius Vanderbilt/Railroad tycoon (1st)

33
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Years of Northern Industrialization

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1860-1890

34
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Vanderbilt famous quote

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“The public be damned”

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