Industrialization

Question 1

Tenement

Answer 1

Overcrowded

Slum housing

Question 2

Rural

Answer 2

Areas when not many people live
In “the country”
These areas are always shrinking

Question 3

Industrialization

Answer 3

Making stuff with machines in big factories

Mass production

Question 4

Capitalism

Answer 4

Capital=$$$
Businesses competing to make $$$
Laissez Faire, Market economy

Question 5

Agrarian

Answer 5

Related to farming

Question 6

Mechanization

Answer 6

Producing stuff with machines

Automation

Question 7

Industry

Answer 7

The business of making things

Question 8

Laissez-Faire

Answer 8

An enlightenment philosophy
Means “Hands Off”-the government stays out of businesses way, and lets them direct their own course
Capitalism, Market economy

Question 9

Social Darwinism

Answer 9

Survival of the fittest

Only the strong can survive- everyone else must fend for themselves

Question 10

Corporation

Answer 10

Business that is owned by many people, not just one person.

Question 11

Monopoly/Trust

Answer 11

One company is the only place where you can get certain good or service.
No competition

Question 12

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 12

1st Federal Law to attempt to limit monopolies.

Question 13

Efficiency

Answer 13

Eliminating waste

Question 14

Productivity

Answer 14

Measure of inputs vs outputs

Question 15

Specialization

Answer 15

Getting really good at producing or doing one thing

Question 16

Interdependence

Answer 16

Two or more that need each other to work

Question 17

Immigration

Answer 17

People moving into a country

Question 18

Emigartion

Answer 18

People leaving a country

Question 19

Migartion

Answer 19

Moving within a country

Question 20

Nativism

Answer 20

Showing favoritism to non-immigrantes

Question 21

Urbanization

Answer 21

Cities getting bigger

Question 22

Political Corruption

Answer 22

Using a position of power to cheat and make money

Question 23

Suburbs

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Policy

Answer 24

A course of action

Question 25

Legislation

Answer 25

Laws or law-making

Question 26

Antitrust Legislation

Answer 26

Laws against monopolies/trusts

Question 27

Labor

Answer 27

Work or Workers

Question 28

Labor Union/ Labor Organization/ Organized Labor

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Collective Bargaining

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Great Railroad Strike (1877)

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Pullman Strike (1894)

Answer 31

Nationwide strike by the American Railway Union Striking against the Pullman company Lots of rioting

Question 32

Homestead Strike (1892)

Answer 32

Strike of US Steelworkers Gunfight between workers and strikebreakers Led to a decline in union membership

Question 33

Haymarket Riot (1886)

Answer 33

Chicago labor protest turned where that was a bombing & a riot

Question 34

Unregulated Working Conditions

Answer 34

Government didn't tell businesses what working conditions must be like

Question 35

Middle Class

Answer 35

People who work but have a good amount of many and a high stranded of living

Question 36

Labor Legislation

Answer 36

Laws about work | Often about unions

Question 37

Business regulation

Answer 37

The government telling businesses what they can and cannot do.

Question 38

Political Parties

Answer 38

Groups that are trying to run the government

Question 39

Interest Groups

Answer 39

A group of people who want something in common from the government

Question 40

Public Opinion

Answer 40

What the people think

Question 41

The Media

Answer 41

The forms of mass communication

Question 42

Leisure

Answer 42

Free time

Question 43

Standard of Living

Answer 43

How hard or easy of your life is.