Chapter 3 Gilded Age and The Progressive Era

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leave alone’ when it comes to economic intervention

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Laissez-Faire

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trade union combining workers who are engaged in a particular craft or skill but who may work for various employers and at various locations

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Craft Union

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

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Robber Barons

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large companies that controlled an industry or a sector, giving them the ability to control the prices of the goods and services they provided.

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Monopoly

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Business that is owned by investors that purchase shares of that company.

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Corporation

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a relationship between persons in which one has the power to manage property and the other has the privilege of receiving the benefits from that property

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Trust

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an association of workers formed to negotiate collectively with an employer to protect and further workers’ rights and interests

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Labor Union

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a government grant to an inventor of the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention, usually for a limited period

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Patent

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a tax charged on goods or services as they move from one country to another.

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Tariff

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a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants

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Nativism

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a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy

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Recession

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a monetary system where a country’s currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold

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Gold Standard

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an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany Hall

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William M. Tweed

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A broad ranging philosophy which rejects all forms of coercion and most forms of authority, especially state and government.

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Anarchist

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a political ideology in the 19th century United States aimed at increasing political and economic equality

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Radicalism

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A worker who refuses to join the union or who works while others are striking

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Strike breaker

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direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.

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Referendum

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The right to vote

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Suffrage

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founded in 1867 to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States

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Grange

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Removal of an elected official

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Recall

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a federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.

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Sherman anti trust act

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related left-wing movements of the late 19th century that wanted to curtail the power of the corporate and financial establishment.

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Populist party

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a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933

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Prohibition

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An expose for the meat paking industry

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The jungle

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journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government

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Muckraking

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a state in the United States in which the manufacture, distribution, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited or tightly restricted

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Dry states

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illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol—was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1917

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18th amendment

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a means through which any citizen or organization may gather a predetermined number of signatures to qualify a measure to be placed on a ballot, and to be voted upon in a future election

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Initiative

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housing projects designed to elevate the situation of the members of the poor working class

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Settlement houses

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granted women the right to vote.

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19th amendment