APUSH CHAPTER 24

THE AMERICAN PAGEANT

VOCABULARY

Subsidize

Husbandry

Liquid capital

Bonanza

A trust

Laissez-faire

Plutocracy

Study Guide

Growth of Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad

Central Pacific Railroad

Cornelius Vanderbilt

New Inventions:

Steel

Standard gauge

Time zones

Telephone

Electric lightbulb

Combustion engine

The Grange

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

Interstate Commerce Commission

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Alva Edison

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

J.P. Morgan

Vertical integration

Horizontal integration

Bessemer process

“Black gold”

“Gospel of Wealth”

Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

James Buchanan Duke

Southern industry

Gibson girls

“Scabs”

“lockouts”

National Labor Union

Knights of Labor

Haymarket Incident

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers