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Gilded Age

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Cash Crop

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Agricultural crop that is grown to be sold for a profit

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Mass culture

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Similar cultural patterns throughout a society

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Dirty streets water

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Creation of sanitization units

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Large cities of people

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Creation of street cars

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High rates of crime

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Creation of a police force

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Tenements

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Multistory buildings divided into apartments and residents as possible

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Suburbs

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Smaller communities on the outside of cities, like towns

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Rural

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Land that is farm-like or on the countryside

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Urbanization

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The expansion and creation of cities

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Southern and eastern europe
Catholic, jewish
In the city, worked in factories
Chinese, italian, polish
Different than european americans

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New

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North and western europe
Mostly protestant
In the country were farmers
Mostly english
Like european americans

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Old

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What was the “purpose” of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

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“The Act was a “response to racism [in America] and to anxiety about threats of cheap labor”

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What types of people were allowed into the United States based on the 1790 Naturalization Act?

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Citizen ship was limiting to white people no immigration restrictions.

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Based on the “Immigration of the United States” chart, how has the United States felt about Immigration in the past?

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The us has focused on limiting the immigration of people who are undesirable

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Johnson Immigration Act

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Imposed first permanent quota system
Imposed yearly cap on immigrants at 150,000

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Immigration Act of 1903

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Added four classes of people not allowed citizenship: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars and importers of prostitutes

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1891
Immigration Act of 1891

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Immigration Bureau directed to deport unlawful aliens

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Restricted immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
No Chinese could become citizens
Began the idea of “illegal immigration” (in America)
The Act was a “response to racism [in America] and to anxiety about threats of cheap labor

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Page Act of 1875

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The first federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered as “undesirable”
The law classified “undesirable” as any individual from Asia who was coming to America to be a contract laborer (railroad worker, etc.)

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Naturalization Act of 1790

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Established the rules for citizenship, but placed no restrictions on immigration. Citizenship was limited to white persons.

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Americanization

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Belief that assimilating immigrants into american society would make them loyal citizens

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Classism

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Prejudice against those of lower social classes

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Nativism

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Prejudice against immigrants

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Immigration

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The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

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Collective Bargaining

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Process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions

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Unions

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Organizations of workers who fight for their rights

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Sweatshops

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Small factories where employers have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay

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Socialism

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System or theory under which the means of production are publiclay controlled and regulated rather than owned by individuals

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Monopoly

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the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service

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Cartel

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an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition

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Trust

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a large grouping of business interests with significant market power

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Madam CJ Walker

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Modern advertising, hair care.

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Henry Ford

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Automobiles, assembly lines

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Andrew Carnegie

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Steel: buildings, railroads, bridges

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John D. Rockefeller

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Standard oil, machines construction

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Captain of Industry

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Someone who earned their money through hard work and benefits the world with their earnings.

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Robber Baron

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Someone who earned their money through corrupt ways and who negatively impacts the world with their earnings.

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Social Darwinism

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the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.

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Laissez-Faire

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a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

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free enterprise

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economic system in which private business operates in competition and free of state control

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The Gilded Age occurred between which 2 eras?

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Reconstruction Era and Progressive Era

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When was the Gilded Age (years)

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1870s - 1890s

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