Untitled Deck Flashcards
(30 cards)
What is the Gilded Age?
The late nineteenth century was a period of intense change that transformed the United States from a predominantly rural nation into a modern industrial society.
What is industrialization?
The process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one.
What is urbanization?
The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban.
What is immigration?
The process of foreign citizens leaving their homeland to live and work in a different country.
What are Robber Barons?
A term used for the businessmen and bankers who dominated the United States industries during the 19th century.
What does rural mean?
(Also referred to as ‘the country’ or ‘the countryside’) large and isolated areas of a country, often with low populations.
What does urban mean?
Belonging to, or relating to, a town or city.
What is agrarian?
The ownership and use of land, especially farmland, relating to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with agriculture.
What is industrial?
Having highly developed industries, relating to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with industry.
What is laissez-faire?
The policy that is based on the idea that governments and the law should not interfere with business, finance, or the conditions of people’s working lives.
What are tariffs?
Taxes imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.
What are political machines?
A political organization that controls enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of its community.
What is social Darwinism?
A theory that maintained that societies evolved by a natural process through which most fit members survived and demonstrated their fitness by gathering property, wealth, and social status.
What are trusts?
Big companies/corporations that dominated the economic scene during the Gilded Age.
What is a melting pot?
A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society.
What are birds of passage?
Immigrants who would enter America during the 19th century that would work until they made enough money to return home and purchase a piece of land.
What was the Americanization Movement?
A system designed to assimilate immigrants into American by educating them in speech, ideals, traditions, and ways of life.
What are tenements?
A large, old building which is divided into a number of individual flats.
What is mechanization?
A process where tasks are done by machines when they were previously done by people.
What are labor unions?
An organization that represents the rights and interests of workers to their employers.
What is the American Dream?
The opportunity and freedom for all citizens to achieve their goals and become rich and famous if only they work hard enough.
What is assimilation?
The process whereby a minority group (immigrant) gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the host culture (America).
What is the Progressive Era?
A period of American history where reformers were committed to improving the conditions in American life.
What is a direct primary?
A system of voting that allowed citizens to hold elections to choose candidates from each party to run for office in general elections.
