unit 6 Flashcards
(25 cards)
The gilded age
A period of rapid economic and population growth after the Civil War (huge factories). A time of unbridled capitalism with business leaders, being unbelievably wealthy and powerful.
industrialization
rural farmers moving into cities working in factories. Economy is transformed from architectural to manufacturing (mass production/assembly line).
tenements
Low rise apartment buildings that often were overcrowded and had inadequate, plumbing and mental ation multiple families in a room with no windows, rats, and
hazardous conditions to their health.
capitalism
an economic system in when people rise to the top with their business and try to get to the top, the government has no say.
Monopoly
when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity
vertical and horizontal interrogation
Owners also used Vertical and
Horizontal Integration to make money and control markets.
Vertical - Purchase of Companies
at All Levels of Production
horizontal- Purchase of Competing
Companies in Same Industry
social Darwism
survival of the fittest. Strong companies survive and rise to the top while we. this is why Monopoly’s were able to exist.
Laissez-Faire economics
belief that economies and businesses function best
when there is no interference by the government. this was why Monopoly‘s were able to exist.
Andrew Carnegie
he wrote the gospel of wealth, which provided rules. 1 live modesty 2 give away all the money you don’t need 3 give money in a way that will benefit most people 4 use suppliers intelligent to decide what kind of help the poor need.
progressivism
was meant to combat the injustice of the Gilded Age the three categories were politically economically and socially
unions wanted
unions wanted better, wages, health benefits in eight hour workday, safer working conditions in the end of child labor. they were successful at getting some rights, not all of them.
Homestead act
past in 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of land to anyone who paid a registration fee lived on land for five years and cultivated it or build on it caused planes Indian war
dawes act
broke up previous land settlement given to Native Americans and created reservation
The wounded knee massacre
A domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota Indians, almost half woman and children by soldiers of the United States Army the last battle.
Imperialism
A policy of extending a country‘s power and influence through diplomacy or military forces
USS Maine
American warship exploded in Cuba Harbour American newspapers claimed the Spanish did it
Annexation
taking a smaller territory, adding it to a larger one
Nationalism
A devotion to the interest and culture of one’s nation pride in one’s country
Materialism
A belief that a country should use military methods forces, etc., to gain power and to achieve its goals
archduke, Franz Ferdinand
heir to Autrain throne assassinated by Serbian nationalist and sarajevo, bosnia june 1914. assassination was catalyst for war alliance system was activated and broke out.
lusitania
A British Cruise liner sunk by a German V boat killing 128 Americans
Zimmerman note
Proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany promising Mexico’s “lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona”
america
One thing that doesn’t draw us into war is alliances, America drown in also be a death of American people
Trench warfare
A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other between the trenches there’s a no man’s land with Barbwire and no cover
