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tenement

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overcrowded slum housing

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rural

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“country” areas where few people live

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industrialization

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making stuff with machines iin facctorys

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capitalism

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businesses competing to make money

laissez faire

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agrarian

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related to farming

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mechanization

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to produce stuff with machines

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industry

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the businesses of making stuff

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laissez faire

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capitalism

enlightenment philosophy

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social darwinism

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survival of the fittest

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corporation

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businesses owned by may people

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monopoly

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no competition

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sherman antitrust act

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attempt to limit monopolies

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efficiency

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eliminating waste

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productivity

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input vs output

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specialization

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being good at one thing

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interdependent

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two or more things that need one another to survive

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immigration

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people moving into a country

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emmigration

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people leaving a country

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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

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urbanization

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citties getting bigger

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political corruption

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using political power to make money

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suburbs

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areas out side cities

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policy

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a course of action

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legislation

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laws or making laws

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antitrust legislation

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laws against monopolies

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labor

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work or workers

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labor union

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organisation of workers to make sure there rights are not infringed

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collective bargaining

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workers banding together for better pay work conditions and hours

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great railroad strike 1877

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riot against railroads

no unions involved

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pulman strike 1894

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nationwide strike by the american railway union

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homestead strike

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strike by us steel workes

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haymarket roit

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chicago labor strike turned where a bombing and roit happened

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unregulated

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unregulated=no gov oversight

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middle class

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people who work but have money and a high standerd of living

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labor legislation

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laws about work

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busseness legislation

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gov telling business what they can and cant do

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political partys

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groups that try to run gov

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interest groups

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a group of people that want the same thing from gov

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public opinion

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what people think

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media

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froms of mass comunication

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leisure

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freetime

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standerd of living

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how easy or hard your life is

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