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Standard 4
Industrialization and Urbanization
Term | Definition |
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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. |