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Chapter 2 section 1 and 2 1-30 Flashcards

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Why wouldnt you find many factories in the south?

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Because there are a lot of fields in the south that grow cotton tobacco and indigo

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Where does manufacturing usually take place?

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In cities on waterways or railroad tracks and in the northeast/ midwest

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What did Henry Bessemer do?

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Henry Bessemer came up with the Bessemer steel process that made it easier and cheaper to make steel.

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What was steel used for?

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Railroads barbed wire plows and beams for buildings

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What is Thomas Edison known for?

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Electricity and a safe lightbulb

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What was the Gilded Age?

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It was when the poverty of 11 million families was being masked by the success of a few people.

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What is a patent?

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A term for a protected invention (registered with the government)

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What is a trust?

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A legal body created to hold stock in many companies.

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Who was the man who heard the first words through the telephone

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Mr. Watson

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First time a stock is available

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Initial public offering

Or IPO

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Who coined the term the gilded age?

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Mark Twain Charles Warner

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Who invented flat bottom bags?

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Margaret Knight

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Term given when one company controls and industry

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Monopoly

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This man thought if you make the best product you dont need to use questionable tactics to be successful.

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Andrew Carnegie

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Robber Baron

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John D Rockefeller

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Inventor of the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Term given to individuals who own parts of a corporation

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Shareholders

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name a financial disadvantage to forming a corporation

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to have to share profit with others

corporate tax

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First practical useable typewriter

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Latham Sholes

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name a product that needed steel for it’s production

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barbed wire
beams for buildings
railroad tracks

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who founded the University of Chicago?

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John D Rockefeller

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what college did Andrew Carnegie found?

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Carnegie Mellon College

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what is the business cycle?

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Sometimes business is good sometimes it is bad

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What is it called when a business is doing good?

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boom or booming

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what is it called when a business is doing bad?

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bust recession or depression

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what is a layoff?

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when a worker is fine but the business doesn’t have enough money to support him/her.

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How are businesses connected

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if one business is doing poorly some people will get laid off so then those people wont spend money at other places then those places start to do poorly.

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What is urbanization?

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when a bunch of people move into a city

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Horatio Alger

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He was the author of the rags to riches story.

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what were some problems with urbanization?

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overcrowding, unemployment

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what is a tenement?

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a run down apartment building that is not well maintained.

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what was the problem with rats?

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disease

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what is the diff b/tween emigrate and immigrate

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when you emigrate you leave your own country and when you immigrate you come into a country

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Where is Angel Island

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Sanfransico California

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what did skyscrapers lead to?

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elevators

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fist brand of elevator

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Otis

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was the reaction to immigrants good?

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no negative

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What did the protestants do about the Catholics and Jews?

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They demanded a law to restrict amount coming in.

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Why would the immigrants take jobs away from other people?

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Because they would be more desperate for a job and would ask for less money than a natural born americans.

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sweatshop

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A factory with terrible working conditions.

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What did the Chinese Exclusion act do?

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It banned any chinese people from entering for 10 years

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what is peonage?

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When someone is forced to work because of debt, supreme court rules no

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Why is the united states called the melting pot?

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Because the US has adopted many other cultures and blended them together.

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what is the US called now? why?

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The US is now called the salad bowl b/c we are all different and we keep our own identity but we are all together as a nation.

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What is assimilation?

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The process of blending in and adapting to a new area

blend by language, food, customs…

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What is Naturalization? What do you have to do?

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becoming an american citizen later in life

  • live here for 5 years
  • pass a test
  • swear an oath to the constitution
  • say you are no longer italian, chinese, where ever you came from
  • background test
  • prove write and read eng.
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What is a settlement house?

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A place that offers daycare education and healthcare

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Where is the Hull House and who created it?

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Chicago Jane Adams

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What did Jane Addams do?

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NAACP
ACLU
first american woman to win the nobel peace prize

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What is the ACLU and what does it do?

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American Civil Liberties Union

makes sure the constitution is being followed

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What is the NAACP?

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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What settlement house is in NYC?

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Henry Street Settlement

Lillian Wald

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What was the Social Gospel Movement?

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it was a movement that stopped child labor.

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What is a Political machine?

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An illegal gang that influenced voters or votes to control a local government.

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what were some of the things the political machines would do?

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bribes
threats
extortion

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What is extortion?

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get something through violence.

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what were some of the good things political machines did?

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Built parks schools roads sewers

helped immigrants settle in

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who invented the sewing machine?

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Elias Howe and Isaac Singer.

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what is Hamas and what do they do?

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terrorist group
in charge of Gaza Israel
does good stuff for support

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Granville Woods

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invents/improves a better telegram machine

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