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Standard 4
Industrialization and Urbanization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Darwinism | |
| Robber Barons | |
| Carnegie | Andrew, 1835–1919, U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland. |
| Rockefeller | |
| Morgan | one of a breed of light carriage and saddle horses descended from the stallion Justin Morgan. |
| Jane Adams | |
| Ida Wells-Barnett | Ida Bell ( Ida Bell Wells-Barnett ) 1862–1931, U.S. journalist and civil-rights leader. |
| Lynching | to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority. |
| Booker T Washington | |
| Rule of Law | the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law. |
| WEB Dubois | |
| Academic Education | |
| Technical Education | |
| Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes | Jim Crow and Black Codes. Black Codes were instituted in the South as a means of regulating the activities of slaves |
| Gospel of Wealth | an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy |
| Housing conditions of immigrants | was horrible |
| Working conditions of immigrants | were horrible |
| Child Labor Laws | Laws passed over many decades, beginning in the 1830s, by state and federal governments, forbidding the employment of children and young teenagers, except at certain carefully specified jobs. |
| Labor Unions | an organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers; trade union. |
| Railroads | a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail. |