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Industrialization Flashcards

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Tenement

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-Overcrowded, slum housing

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Rural

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  • Areas where not too many people live
  • In “the country”
  • These Areas are always shrinking
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Industrialization

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  • Making stuff with machines in big factories

- mass production

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Capitalism

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  • CAPITAL=MONEY
  • Businesses competing to make money
  • Laissez Faire, Market Economy
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Agrarian

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-Related to farming

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Mechanization

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  • Producing stuff with machines

- Automation

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Industry

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-The business of making things

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Laissez-Faire

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  • An enlightenment philosophy
  • Means “Hands Off”–The government stays out of business way, and lets them direct their own course
  • Capitalism, Market Economy
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-Social Darwinism

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  • Survival of the fittest
  • Only the strong survive—everyone is competing against everyone else
  • Example: small business can’t compete with bigger ones, so they just go out of business
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Corporation

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  • business that is owned by many people not just one person

- Example: Walmart, Sony, Ford etc.

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Monopoly/Trust

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  • One company is the only place get a certain good or service
  • No competition
  • Example: Standard Oil, U.S. Steel
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Sherman Antitrust Act

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-1st federal law to attempt limit monoplies

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Efficiency

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  • Eliminating waste:

- Eliminated wasted time, money, energy, resources, etc.

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Productivity

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Measure of inputs and outputs

If you produce more with the same amount of resources or less, your productivity goes up.

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Specialization

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Getting really good producing or doing one thing

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Interdependence

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To or more things that need each other to work

This is a result of specialization

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Immigration

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People moving into a country

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Emigration

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People leaving a country

The opposite of immigration

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Migration

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Moving within a country

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Nativism

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Showing favoritism toward non-immigrants (“natives”)

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Urbanization

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Cities getting bigger

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Political corruption

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Using a position of power to cheat and make money

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Suburbs

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Communities just outside of cities-not as densely populated, but not rural

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Policy

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A course of action

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Legislative

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Laws or Law-making

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Anti-trust Legislation

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Laws against monopolies/trust

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Labor

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Work or workers

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Labor union/ Labor organization/ Organized Labor

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Workers that get together (organize) for better wages, working conditions, and hours

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Collective bargaining

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Workers banding together to negotiate with managers for better pay, working conditions, and hours

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Great Railroad Strike (1877)

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Riot against railroads
No unions involved
Led to the formation of labor unions
Local, State, and Federal Militias called in to end the violence

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Pullman strike (1897)

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Nationwide strike by the American railway union

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Homestead strike (1892)

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Strike of US steel workers

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Haymarket Riot (1886)

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Chicago labor protest turned where there were bombing and a riot

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Unregulated working conditions

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No government oversight

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Middle class

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People who work but have a good amount of money and a relatively high standard of living

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Labor Legislation

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Laws about working. Often about unions

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Business regulation

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The government telling business what they can and cannot do

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Political Parties

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Groups that try to run the government

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Interest Groups

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A group of people that want something in common from the government–a particular thing of “of interest” to them

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Public Opinion

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What the people think

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The media

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The forms of mass communication

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Leisure

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Free Time–used for enjoyment or relaxing

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Standard of living

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How hard or easy your life is— the easier life is, the higher your standard of living

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