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In the late 19th century, educated, middle-class women dominated the new profession of…

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Nursing

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Although there was additional factors as well, by the final decades of the 19th century, the chief cause of urban was…

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Expansion of industry

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Urban transportation was revolutionized and urban development was redirected in the late 1880’s by…

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Electric trolleys

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The leader of the “city beautiful” movement and the landscape architect and designer of Central Park in New York was…

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Frederick Law Olmsted

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A form of popular education which illustrated the popular desire for new information in the late 19th century was…

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Chautauqua Movement

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The land-grant university system resulted from the…

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Morrill Act of 1862

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The leader of what was called the progressive education was…

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John Dewey

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The founder of the Hull House in a Chicago slum was…

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Jane Addams

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The author of “How the Other Half Lives” is…

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Jacob A. Riis

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Losing ones job to new machinery/equipment is called…

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Technological unemployment

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The process of buying businesses that supply the different stages of your existing business is called…

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Vertical integration

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By the end of the 1800’s, the industrial capacity of the United States…

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Greatly surpassed both Great Britain’s and Germany’s

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25 years after the civil war, railroads…

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Were likely the most significant element in the development of the American economy

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After the transportation, the second most important element to the United States’ industrialization in the late 19th century was

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Iron manufacturing

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While Edison did not invent the light bulb, he did make it more efficient by…

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Finding the right filament

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All of the following were used to standardize railroads, thus making them more efficient, except…

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Construction of more lines

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The process that directed a stream of air into molten iron to burn off impurities, making better quality steel was the…

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Bessemer process

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Perhaps better than the Bessemer Process was the open-hearth method because it allowed for…

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Allowed for more quality control

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The economy from 1873 to 1893 was characterized by…

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Much competition for markets

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Large shippers were encouraged to use specific railroads because they…

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Were offered rebates

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Intense competition among railroads resulted in…

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Financially unstable railroads that were vulnerable to any economic downturn

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Andrew Carnegie was one of the first industrial magnates of the era to realize the importance of…

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Developing technology to produce superior goods

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John D. Rockefellers success can be said primarily to be because of his…

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Attention to detail and extensive organizing skills

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Natural selection, part of the theory of evolution was used to justify American magnates greed. This theory was put forth by…

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Charles Darwin

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Not everyone was a big fan of the big businessman, ________ instead stated that “Every important man in the oil, coal, and many other trusts ought today to be in some one of our penitentiaries.”

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Henry Demarest Lloyd

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The Industrial Age was made possible by…

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a population boom

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Telegraph invented by…

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Samuel Morse in 1837

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Telephone invented by…

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Alexander Graham Bell in 1876

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First person to have a paper made by the Linotype and Printing Press reach a massive audience?

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Joseph Pulitzer

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Owner who is seen as “Robbing” the less fortunate, has bad public image, and may try to reclaim a good image by donating large chunks of money

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Robber Baron

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Owner who is seen as bettering society, “survival of the fittest”, rags to riches story

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Captains of Industry

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Ferried goods and people between Manhattan and Staten Island, later purchased and consolidated railroads.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Built largest steel mill in 1873 and first to use Bessemer process

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Andrew Carnegie

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First billion dollar corporation, offered to buy out Carnegie

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JP Morgan

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Standard Oi, started in 1870 and within 9 years had 90% of nations refining business (mostly due to organization and attention to detail)

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John D. Rockefeller

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