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Industry-Progressive
Question | Answer |
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Entrepreneur | Someone who starts a business |
Robber Barron | Someone who uses ruthless business tactics |
Monopoly | A business that dominates an industry and has no competition |
Philanthropist | Someone who donates money |
John D. Rockefeller | Oil, Monopoly, Robber Baron |
Andrew Carnegie | Steel, Monopoly, Robber Baron |
JP Morgan | Bank, Robber Baron |
Another name for a Monopoly | Trust |
Henry Ford | The automobile, assembly line |
Machine used for mass production of goods | Assembly line |
Middle Class | New Social Class emerged from Industrial Revolution |
Coal & Iron | Two natural resources needed for Industrialization |
Rural | Country life |
Urban | City life |
Laissez- Faire | No government regulations |
Social Darwinism | Survival of the fittest |
Nativists | Americans who don't like immigrants- they will take away jobs |
Labor Unions | Organizations to help workers get better wages, hours |
Irish | First Catholic group, Potato famine |
Jacob Riis | Wrote How the other half lives- urban slums |
Upton Sinclair | Wrote the Jungle- Meat packing industry |
Theodore Roosevelt | President that tried to eliminate Monopolies- Trust busting |
Sherman anti trust act | A law to end Monopolies |
Progressive movement | Time period to eliminate corruption during the Industrial revolution |
Muckrakers | Photographers, journalist who exposed what businesses were doing wrong |
Tenement housing act | Law passed to help people living in slums- Jacob Riis |
Pure Food and Drug act | Law passed to make sure food was safe to eat- Upton Sinclair |
Seneca Falls convention | Meeting for women suffragette |
Declaration of sentiments | A document to gain rights for women |
Fair Labor Standards act | Law that eliminated Child Labor |
Temperance movement | Movement to ban alcohol |
18th Amendment | Prohibition- Banning the sale and distribution of alcohol |
19th Amendment | Women right to vote |
Supply & Demand | Prices depends on the demand and the supply of the products |