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Industrialization Flashcards

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Tenement

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Overcrowded

Slum housing

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Rural

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Areas when 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=$$$
Businesses competing to make $$$
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 can survive- everyone else must fend for themselves

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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 where you can get certain good or service.
No competition

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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1st Federal Law to attempt to limit monopolies.

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Efficiency

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Eliminating waste

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Productivity

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Measure of inputs vs outputs

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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 that need each other to work

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Immigration

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People moving into a country

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Emigartion

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People leaving a country

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Migartion

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Moving within a country

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Nativism

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Showing favoritism to non-immigrantes

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Urbanization

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Cities getting bigger

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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

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Legislation

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Laws or law-making

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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 for (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.

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Great Railroad Strike (1877)

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Riots against railroads
No Unions
Led to the formation of labor unions
Local, State, and Federal Militias called in to end the violence.

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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 Steelworkers
Gunfight between workers and strikebreakers
Led to a decline in union membership

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Haymarket Riot (1886)

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

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Unregulated Working Conditions

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Government didn’t tell businesses what working conditions must be like

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Middle Class

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People who work but have a good amount of many and a high stranded 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.

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Political Parties

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Groups that are trying to run the government

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Interest Groups

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A group of people who want something in common from the government

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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

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Leisure

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Free time

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Standard of Living

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How hard or easy of your life is.

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