The rise of big business in the United States encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked government and popular efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and environment, and renewed debates over U.S. national identity.

 

Important Events:

• Invention of the Lightbulb

• Age of Invention

• Assembly Line Production

• Rise of the Tycoons

• Haymarket Square Riots

• Yellow Journalism

• Turner's Frontier Thesis

• Billion Dollar Congress

• Gramge Movement

• Populist Movement

• "Free Silver"

• Spanish American War

• Idea of New Navy

 

Important People:

• Horatio Alger Jr. 

• Thomas A. Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbuilt

• Andrew Carnegie

• George Pullman

• Terrence Powderly

• Samuel Gompers

• Jane Adams

• Joseph Pulitzer

• William Randolph 

• Frederick Jackson Turner

• Susan B. Anthony

• Frederick Taylor

 

Important Groups:

• Knights of Labour (by Uriah Stephens)

• National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) (by W.E.B Du Bois)

• American Federation of Labour (by Samuel Gompers)

• American Suffrage Association (by Susan B. Anthony)

• Grange Movement 

• Farmer's Alliances

• People's Party 

• Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

 

Important Documents:

• Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890

• Homestead Act

• Morill Land Grant Act

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• McKinley Tariff

 

Important Vocabulary:

• Mass Production

• Corporate Consolidation

• Holding Company

• Monopoly

• Horizontal Integration

• Vertical Integration

• Social Darwinism

• Gospel of Wealth

• Mass Transportation

• Political Machines

• Trade Unions

• Railroad Regulations