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Gross National Product

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The total value of goods and services produced by a country during a year

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Natural Resources

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Including timber, coal, iron, and copper

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Entrepreneurs

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People who organize, manage, and assume the risk of a business or enterprise

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Laissez-Faire

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A policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy

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Union Pacific Railroad

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Pushed westward from Nebraska in 1865, employed ~10,000 workers

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Central Pacific Railroad

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Hired 10,000 Chinese to meet the Union Pacific Railroad company in Utah

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Investors

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People who put money into a company in order to gain a future financial reward

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Land Grants

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Grants of land by the federal government, especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges

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Captains of Industry

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People who become rich through ethical methods and were positive for the country

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Robber Barons

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A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices

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The Credit Mobilier Scandal

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Railroads discovered they could make more money by selling land grants than by operating the railroad

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Corporation

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An organization that is authorized by law to carry on an activity but treated as though it were a single person

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Economies of Sale

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The reduction in the cost of a good brought about especially by increased production at a given facility

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Distribution

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The act or process of being given out or disbursed to clients, consumers, or members of a group

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Consumer

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A person who buys what is produced by an economy

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Vertical Integration

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The combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies

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Horizontal Integration

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One company growing its operations at the same level in an industry

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Monopoly

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Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company

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Trust

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A combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement, especially to reduce competition

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Holding Company

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A company whose primary business is owning a controlling share of stock in other companies

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Chain Stores

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A series of stores owned by one company that sell the same merchandise

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Deflation

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A decline in the volume of available money or credit that results in lower prices, and therefore increases the buying power of money

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Industrial Union

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An organization of common laborers and craft workers in a particular industry

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Social Darwinism

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Natural laws applied to society, used as a justification typically for mistreatment or superiority

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Lockout

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A company tool to fight union demands by refusing to allow employees to enter the facilities to work

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Knights of Labor

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Skilled and unskilled workers rallied for shorter work days, equal pay for men and women, and to end child labor

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Arbitration

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Settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider

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Homestead Strike

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Industrial lockout and strike, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents

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Injunction

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A court order whereby one is required to do or to refrain from doing a specified act

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Closed Shop

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An agreement in which a company agrees to hire only union members

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American Federation of Labor

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National federation of labor unions aimed at providing mutual support

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James J. Hill

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Created the Great Northern railroad without land grants, most successful transcontinental railroad

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Thomas Edison

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Perfectionist of lightbulb in 1880

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Inventor of phone in 1876

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Gustavus Swift

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Invented refrigerated railroad car that revolutionized meat and produce industry

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Christopher Scholes

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Inventor of typewriter in 1868

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Andrew Carnegie

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Led expansion of steel industry and became one of the richest Americans in history

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John Rockefeller

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Founded a kerosene business in 1860s, bought up competitors until he owned 90% of the nation’s pipeline and could refine 84% of the nation’s oil, his company was broken up by the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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J.P. Morgan

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American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finances on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age

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Eugene Debs

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One of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, five-time Socialist Party candidate for POTUS

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Immigrant

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One who enters and becomes established in a country other than that of his or her original nationality

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Ethnic Group

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Large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background

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Ellis Island

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Main point of entry and processing center for Europeans

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Angel Island

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Main point of entry and processing center for Asia, off coast of San Francisco, California

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Provided a 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States

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Nativism

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Hostility toward immigrants by native-born people

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Urbanization

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The process of making an area more urban

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Skyscraper

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A very tall building

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Tenements

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Multifamily apartments, usually dark, crowded, and barely meeting minimum living standards

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Political Machine

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An organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government

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Graft

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The acquisition of money in dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician

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Individualism

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The belief that no matter what a person’s background is, he or she can still become successful through effort

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Philanthropy

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Providing money to support humanitarian or social goals

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Settlement Houses

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An institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical cure, child care, libraries, and classes in English

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Tin Pan Alley

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A collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and earl 20th centuries

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Pendleton Service Act

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Passed in 1883 by Congress, required some jobs to be filled by competitive written exams rather than by patronage

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Civil Service

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A system where most government workers are given jobs based on qualification rather on political affiliation

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Populism

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A political movement founded in the 1890s representing mainly farmers that favored free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other large industries

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Greenbacks

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A unit of paper currency first issued by the federal government during the Civil War

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Inflation

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An ongoing increase in prices and decrease in the value of money

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Graduated Income Tax

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A tax based on the net income of an individual or business

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Poll Taxes

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Taxes of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote

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Grandfather Clause

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Allowed any man to vote is he had an ancestor who could vote in 1867

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Jim Crow

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Statutes enacted to enforce segregation

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Melting Pot

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A term used to describe Americanization in which immigrants adopt American culture and abandon culture from their home country

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Jane Addams

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Activist for women’s suffrage

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Boss Tweed

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Defrauded city, led the Tweed Ring, behind construction of New York County Courthouse

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William Jennings Bryan

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Democratic candidate in 1896

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William McKinley

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Republican POTUS serving from 1897 to 1901, led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades

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Oliver Hudson Valley

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One of the key founders of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry

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Farmers Alliance

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American agrarian movement during the 1870s and 80s that sought to improve the economic conditions for farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy

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Booker T. Washington

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Founder Tuskegee Institute, believed change would be gradual but African Americans would achieve equality

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Web Du Bois

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Equality to whites for African Americans, both socially and economically, founded Niagara Movement, pushed immediate inclusion into white society

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Ida B. Wells

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Teacher and journalist that led the anti-lynching movement

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Mary Church Terrell

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Activist against lynching, racism, and sexism, helped found the NAACP and the Woman Wage Earners

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Jacob Riis

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Immigrant from Denmark, documents urban poor conditions, exposes hardships of NYC’s poor

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Americanization Movement

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Activities that pushed assimilation to American culture

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Social Gospel Movement

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Tried to better conditions in cities

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Plessy vs. Fergusen

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Sued after being arrest for riding in “whites-only” car, case made it to Supreme Court

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