Unit 2 - Industrialization Flashcards
Rural
- Areas where not many people live
- In “the country”
- These areas are always shrinking
Tenement
• Overcrowded, slum housing
Industrialization
- Making stuff with machines in big factories
* Mass production
Capitalism
- CAPITAL=MONEY
- Businesses competing to make money
- Laissez Faire, Market Economy
Agrarian
• Related to farming
Mechanization
- Producing stuff with machines
* Automation
Industry
• The business of making things
Laissez-faire
• An enlightenment philosophy • Means “Hands Off”--the government stays out of businesses way, and lets them direct their own course • Capitalism, Market Economy
Social Darwinism
• 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
Corporation
• business that is owned by many people
not just one person
• Example: Walmart, Sony, Ford, etc.
Monopoly/Trust
• One company is the only place you can get a certain good or service –No competition • Example: Standard Oil, U.S. Steel
Sherman Antitrust Act
• 1st federal law to attempt to limit
monopolies
Efficiency
• Eliminating waste:
– Eliminating wasted time, money, energy,
resources, etc.
• Example: taking the shortest route to get
somewhere
Productivity
• Measure of inputs vs outputs
• If you produce more with the same amount of
resources or less, your productivity goes UP
• Example: today you 10 workers produce 10
cars; tomorrow, the same 10 workers produce
15 cars. Productivity went up.
Specialization
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
Interdependence
• 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
Immigration
• People Moving Into a country
• Example: a person moves here from
Italy or Mexico
Emigration
- People Leaving a country
* The Opposite of immigration
Migration
• Moving within a country
Nativism
• Showing favoritism toward non-immigrants
(“natives”)
– Has NOTHING to do with American Indians!
• Example: refusing to hire immigrants
Urbanization
- Cities getting bigger
* Urban = City
Political Corruption
• Using a position of power to cheat and
make money
Suburbs
• Communities just outside of cities—not as
densely populated, but not rural
• EX: Pickerington, Westerville, Dublin
Policy
A course of action
• It answers the question: “How are we
going to do things?”
Example: “Late to class, no hall pass”
Legislation
• Laws OR Law-making
• Examples: The Affordable
Healthcare Act, Sherman Antitrust
Act
Antitrust Legislation
• Laws against
monopolies/trusts
Labor
• Work OR Workers
• Example: coal miners, teachers, steel
workers, auto workers, etc.
Labor Union/Labor Organization/Organized Labor
• workers that get together (organize)
for better wages, working
conditions, and hours
Collective Bargaining
• Workers banding together to negotiate
with managers for better pay, working
conditions, and hours
• What labor unions do
Great Railroad Stike (1877)
• Riots against Railroads • No Unions Involved • Led to the formation of Labor Unions • Local, State, & Federal Militias called in to end the violence
Pullman Strike (1894)
• Nationwide strike by the American Railway
Union
• Striking against the Pullman Company
• Lots of rioting
Homestead Strike (1892)
• Strike of US Steel workers
• There was gun fight between workers and
strikebreakers
• Led to a decline in union membership
Haymarket Riot (1886)
• Chicago labor protest turned where there
was a bombing & a riot
Unregulated/Unregulated Working Conditions
• Unregulated=no government oversight
• Working conditions=what the environment
is like at your work
– Mostly related to safety
• Unregulated working conditions means the
government doesn’t tell businesses what
the environment at work must be like
Middle Class
• People who work but have a good amount
of money and a relatively high standard of
living
Labor Legislation
• Laws about work. Often about unions
Business Regulation
• The government telling businesses what
they can and cannot do
• EXAMPLES: Minimum wage, Meat
Inspection Act
Political Parties
• Groups that try to run the government – REPUBLICANS – DEMOCRATS – GREEN PARTY – LIBERTARIAN PARTY
Interest Groups
• A group of people who want something in
common from the government–a
particular thing is “of interest” to them.
Public Opinion
What the people think
The Media
• The forms of mass communication –Newspapers –TV –Magazines –Radio
Leisure
• Free Time–used for enjoyment or relaxing
Standard of Living
• How hard or easy your life is—the easier
life is, the higher your standard of living