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Chapter 18 Flashcards

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Anarchists

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Opposes all forms of the govrnment

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Cheap,crowded,city housing for the poor

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Tenement

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Compulsory Education

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Requires school for all children

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The lower parts of the ship that often carried immigrants at the turn of the 20th century

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Steerage

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Became the national past time following he civil war

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Baseball

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Ellis Island

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Opened in New York to pass immigrants

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Morgan

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Banking tycoon

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Trust

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Group of corporations run by SINGLE board of directors

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Reformers like Jane ________ opened settlement houses for the urban poor

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Addams

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Telephone

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Invented by Alexander bell

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The _______ ________ system allowed privately owned business to compete freely

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Free enterprising

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The majority of immigrants came from ______ and _______ Europe

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Eastern and southern

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Collective Bargaining

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Workers negotiate as a group

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Gompers

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Founder of the American federation of labor

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Survival of the fittest

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Social Darwinism

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Twain

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Author of huckleberry fin and Tom Sawyer

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Communicated by using dots and dashes

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Telegraph

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Advances in _________ helped cities spread outward

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Transportation

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New York was the first city to what

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Be wired for electricity

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A violent strike at ______________ turned public opinion against unions

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Hay market

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Wright brothers

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Flew the first airplane

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_________ stores offered something for everybody

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Department

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Corporation

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Business owned by many investors

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Carnegie

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Steel tycoon

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A person who stats their own buisness to make a profit

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Entrepreneur

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A buisness without competition

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Monoply

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Workers have long hours and little pay at _____

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Sweat shops

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Nativists

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People who oppose immigration

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Rockefeller

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Oil tycoon

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Section of the city where people with similar ethnic backgrounds live

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Ghetto

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Triangle shirt waist factory

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Tragic fire was here

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Edison

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Inventor if the light bulb and phonograph

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Assimilation

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Becoming part if another culture

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Knights of labor

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Became the largest labor union

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