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Industrialization Flashcards

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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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Leisure

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*Free time– used for enjoyment or relaxing

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The Media

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  • The forms of mass communication
  • Newspapers
  • TV
  • Magazines
  • Radio
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Public Opinion

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*What the people think

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Interest Groups

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  • A group of people who want something in common from the government– a particular thing is ¨of interest¨ to them.
  • Ex.: National Association of Advancement for Colored People, National Education Association, AAA, and Corn Grovers.
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Political Parties

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  • Groups that try to run the government.
  • Republicans
  • Democrats
  • Green Party
  • Libertarian Party
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Business Regulation

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  • The government telling businesses what they can and cannot do.
  • Examples: Minimum wage, Meat Inspection Act
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Labor Legislation

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  • Laws about work. Often about unions.
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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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Unregulated Working Conditions

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  • Unregulated= no government oversight
  • Working conditions= what the enviroment is like at your work-Mostly related to safety
  • Unregulated Working conditions means the government does not tell businesses what the enviroment at work must be like
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Haymarket Riot (1886)

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*Chicago labor protest turned where there was a bombing and a riot

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Homestead Strike (1892)

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  • Strike of US steel workers
  • There was gunfight between workers and strikebreakers
  • Led to a decline in union membership
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Pullman Strike (1894)

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  • Nationwide strike by the American Railway Union
  • Striking against the Pullman Company
  • Lots of rioting
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Great Railroad Strike

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  • Riots 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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Collective Bargaining

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  • Workers banding together to negotiate with managers for better pay, working conditions, and hours.
  • What labor unions do
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Labor Union/ Labor Organization

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  • Workers get together (organize) for better wages, working conditions, and hours
  • Examples: United Autoworkers, Ohio Education Association
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Labor

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  • Work or workers

* Examples: coal miners, teachers, steel workers, and autoworkers

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Antitrust Legislation

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*Laws against monopolies/trust

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Legislation

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  • Laws or Lawmaking

* Examples: The Affordable Healthcare Act, Sherman Antitrust Act

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Policy

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  • A course of action
  • It answers the question: ¨How are we going to do things?¨”
  • Example: ¨Late to class, no hall pass¨
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Suburbs

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*Communities just outside of cities- not as densely populated, but not rural
Ex.: Pickerington, Westerville, Dublin

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Political Corruption

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*Using a position of power to cheat and make money

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Urbanization

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  • Cities getting bigger

* Urban=city

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Nativism

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  • Showing favoritism toward non-immigrants (¨Natives¨)
  • Has nothing to do with American Indians!
  • Example: reefusing to hire immigrants
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Migration

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*Moving within a country

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Emigration

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  • People leaving a country

* The opposite of immigration

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Immigration

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  • People moving into a country

* Example: a person moves here from Italy or Mexico

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Interdependence

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  • Two or more things that need each other to work.
  • Example: -steel companies need railroads to ship their steel around the country
  • Railroads need steel to make their tracks, trains, bridges, etc. THEY NEED EACH OTHER

*This is a result of specialization

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Specialization

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  • Getting really good at producing or doing one thing.

* Examples: a kicker on a football team; a line worker who just bolts on the front left tire of a car

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Productivity

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  • Measure of inputs vs outputs
  • If you produce more with the same amount of resources or less, your productivity goes UP
  • Example: today 10 workers produce 10 cars; tomorrow, the same 10 workers produce 15 cars. Productivity went up.
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Efficiency

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  • Eliminating waste: -Eliminating wasted time, money, energy, resources, etc.
  • Example: taking the shortest route to get somewhere
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Sherman Antitrust Act

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*1st Federal law to attempt to limit monopolies

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Monopoly/Trust

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  • One company is the only place you can get a certain good or service
  • NO Competition
  • Example: Standard Oil, U.S. steel
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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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Social Darwinism

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  • Survival of the fittest
  • ONly the strong survive- everyone is competing against everyone else
  • Example: small businesses can’t compete with bigger ones, so they just go out of business
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Laissez-Faire

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  • An Enlightenment philosophy
  • Means ¨Ḧands off¨¨– the government stays out of businesses way, and lets them direct their own course
  • Capitalism, Market Economy
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Industry

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*The business of making things

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Mechanization

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  • Producing stuff with machines

* Automation

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Agrarian

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*Related to farming

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Capitalism

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  • Capital= Money
  • Business competing to make money
  • Laissez- Faire, Market Economy
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Industrialization

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  • Making stuff with machines in big factories

* Mass production

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Rural

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  • Areas where not many people live
  • In ¨the country¨
  • These areas are always shrinking
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Tenement

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*overcrowded, slum housing

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Commerce

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*to buy and sell things

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