2. Gilded Age Flashcards

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Key Gilded Age Characteristics

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Rapid - Industry, mass production, population growth, & corruption

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2
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A situation in which one company controls an entire industry

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Monopoly

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3
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Small companies join together to form one large company.

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Trust

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4
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The idea is that the government should not interfere with business practices.

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Laissez-Faire

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5
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The rise of a manufacturing economy and the decline of an agricultural economy.

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Industrialization

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6
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The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten iron

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Bessemer Process

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7
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European Region most immigrants came from during the Gilded Age

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Southern & Eastern Europe

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8
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Crowded apartment building with poor sanitation, safety, and comfort

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Tenement Houses

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9
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Prohibited Chinese laborers from U.S.

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Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 & 1892

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10
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Forced assimilation to be Americanized

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Nativism/Americiasim

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11
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Created settlement houses for young immigrant women to provide job training, living, & childcare

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Jane Adams (Hull House)

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12
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Political organization with corrupt government officials

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Tammany Hall

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13
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Leader of the Political Machine in NYC

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Williams “Boss” Tweed

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14
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Industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist who controlled most of the steel industry.

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Andrew Carnegie

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15
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Industrialist business tycoon and philanthropist who owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry

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John D. Rockefeller

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16
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Grew out of a need to protect the workers and what was best for them. Labor Unions were established to protect worker interests.

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Labor Movement (Unions)

17
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Outlawed business monopolies, but was not very effective at limiting the power of big business.

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Sherman Antitrust Act

18
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Identify the key reasons for the Labor Movement

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Terrible working conditions, long working hours, low wages, & child labor