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SS Vocab - Unit 7

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Assembly Line A way to increase production and reduce costs by having each worker do the same tasks again and again on a moving line
Vertical Integration Businesses grow by purchasing companies of all stages of the production
Horizontal Integration purchasing of competing companies in the same industry
Monopoly total control of an industry by a single producer. Rockefeller - 95% of the oil industry
Trade union workers from certain trades (i.e. electrician, carpenter, etc.) got together to demand better pay and working conditions – safety in numbers
Sweatshop crowded urban factories with long hours, low pay & horrible working conditions
Collective bargaining when unions represent workers in labor discussions with management
Assimilate to become a part of a culture, adopt its customs
Nativists people who were against the immigrants, they wanted a white, English speaking , Protestant population.
Tenement building where many families lived together – poor – dangerous - dirty
Gilded Age (gild=a thin layer of gold) the time period where the few super rich lived well but the many poor lived in squalor
Settlement house houses set up to help the poor and the immigrants with childcare, English classes, etc.
Patronage spoils system - political supporters rewarded with jobs and favors
Muckraker reporters who expose the muck (dirt, corruption) in society
Initiative voters can place issues on the ballot to be addressed (state level)
Referendum voters can okay or reject measures from state legislature
Recall people/ voters can remove incompetent/lame elected officials (think impeachment idea)
Suffragist fought for a women’s right to vote
Prohibition laws that stopped/banned the making or selling of alcohol.
Temperance Movement people organized together to get people to stop drinking
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