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Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization Flashcards

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transforming the economy from agriculture to manufacturing

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Industrialization

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moving to a new country with the intention of struggling and living there

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Immigration

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the growth of cities

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Urbanization

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give up beliefs and become part of another culture

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Assimilation/Americanization

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giving of government jobs to people who had helped a canidate get elected

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Patronage

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federal gov, jobs awarded on the basis of merit and that gov. employees be selected through competitive exams

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Pendleton Civil Service Act

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offered services to votes and businesses in exchange for political or financial support

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Political Machine

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overcrowded and unsanitary multifamily urban dwelling

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Tenement Housing

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community centers in slums that provided assistance to immigrants and the needy

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Settlement House

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favoring the interests of native-born over foreign-born people

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Nativism

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when the gov. gives an inventor the rights to develop, use, and sell an invention

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Patent

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contract between a worker and an employer in which the worker agrees not to remain in or join a Union

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Yellow-dog contract

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a mixture of people of different cultures and races blended together and abandoned their Native language and customs

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“melting pot”

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processed European immigrants in the New York Harbour

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Ellis Island

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processed Asian immigrants in San Francisco Bay

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Angel island

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suspended the immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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an organization of workers who came together to achieve common goals

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Labor Unions

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What were labor unions common strategies?

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  • Higher wages
  • Better working conditions
  • Job security
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important strike from Knights of Labor in Chicago in 1886; 7 people arrested

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Haymarket Riot

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Pullman cart works strike and stops railroads from functioning in the Midwest

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Pullman Strike

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Railroad Industry

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Vanderbilt & Carnegie

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Steel Industry

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Carnegie & Morgan

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Oil

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Rockefeller

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light bulb

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Thomas Edison

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telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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taking over suppliers, distributors, and transportation

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Vertical Integration

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merging of similar companies

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Horizontal Integration

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a process for purifying iron resulting in strong, but lightweight steel

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Bessemer process

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What industry does the Bessemer process affect?

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Steel Industry

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an important settlement House that gave assistance to needy immigrants

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Hull House

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Who created the Hull House?

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Jane Addams

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the production of goods and services within an economy

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industry

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risk-taking business person

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entreprenuar

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took advantage of opportunities and made fortunes off of growing industries

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Robber-barons

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taxes that make impacted goods cost more than those made locally

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Protective Tariff

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a policy which allowed businesses to operate under minimal gov. regulation

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Lissez faire

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when the gov, gives an inventor the rights to develop, use, and sell an invention

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Patent

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organized skilled workers into Unions

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American Federation of Labor

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Union leaders negotiated issues with mangement

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Collective Bargaining

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workers name goes on a list and businesses refuse to hire you

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blacklisting

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1st national strike; stops railroads across the nation; fails

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The Great railroad Strike

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secret labor union that works to fix problems by using violence

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Knights of Labor

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when pressure, law, and prejudice prevent from renting elsewhere

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Ghettos

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300 lb man who was the political boss at Tammany Hall

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Boss Tweed

45
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Which state produced the most steel?

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Pennsylvania

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