INDUSTRIALIZATION

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Tenement

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Overcrowded, slum housing

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Rural

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Areas where not many people live • In “the country” • These areas are always shrinking

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Industrialization

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Making stuff with machines in big factories • Mass production

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Capitalism

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CAPITAL=MONEY • Businesses competing to make money • Laissez Faire, Market Economy

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Agrarian

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Related to farming

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Mechanization

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• Producing stuff with machines • Automation

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Industry

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• The business of making things

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Laissez-faire

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An enlightenment philosophy • Means “Hands Off”–the government stays out of businesses way, and lets them direct their own course • Capitalism, Market Economy

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Social Darwinism

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Survival of the fittest • Only the strong survive—everyone is competing against everyone else

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Corporation

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business that is owned by many people not just one person

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Monopoly/Trust

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One company is the only place you can get a certain good or service – No competition

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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1 st federal law to attempt to limit monopolies

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Efficiency

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Eliminating waste: – Eliminating wasted time, money, energy, resources, etc.

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Productivity

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Measure of inputs vs outputs • If you produce more with the same amount of resources or less, your productivity goes UP

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Specialization

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Getting really good at producing or doing ONE thing

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Interdependence

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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

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Immigration

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People Moving Into a country

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Emigration

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People Leaving a country • The Opposite of immigration

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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 (“natives”)

Has NOTHING to do with American Indians!

Question 21

Urbanization

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Cities getting bigger

Urban = City

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Political Corruption

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Using a position of power to cheat and make money

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Suburbs

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Communities just outside of cities—not as densely populated, but not rural

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Policy

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A course of action

It answers the question: “How are we going to do things?

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Antitrust Legislation

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Laws against monopolies/trusts

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Labor

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Work OR Workers

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Labor Union/ Labor Organization/Organized Labor

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workers that get together (organize) for better wages, working conditions, and hours

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Collective Bargaining

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Workers banding together to negotiate with managers for better pay, working conditions, and hours What labor unions do

Question 29

Pullman Strike (1894)

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Nationwide strike by the American Railway Union Striking against the Pullman Company Lots of rioting

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Homestead Strike (1892)

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Strike of US Steel workers There was gun fight between workers and strikebreakers Led to a decline in union membership

Question 31

Haymarket Riot (1886)

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Chicago labor protest turned where there was a bombing & a riot

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Unregulated /Unregulated Working Conditions

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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

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Middle Class

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People who work but have a good amount of money and a relatively high standard of living

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Labor Legislation

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Laws about work. Often about unions

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Business regulation

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The government telling businesses what they can and cannot do EXAMPLES: Minimum wage, Meat Inspection Act

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Political Parties

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``` Groups that try to run the government REPUBLICANS DEMOCRATS GREEN PARTY LIBERTARIAN PARTY ```

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Interest Groups

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A group of people who want something in common from the government--a particular thing is “of interest” to them. Examples?

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Public Opinion

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What the people think

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The Media

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``` The forms of mass communication Newspapers TV Magazines Radio cnn ```

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Leisure

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Free Time--used for enjoyment or relaxing

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Standard of Living

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How hard or easy your life is—the easier life is, the higher your standard of living

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commerce

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selling and buying