vocabulary of the Gilded Age era
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Transcontinental Railroad | show 🗑
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Alexander Graham Bell | show 🗑
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show | Allowed people to communicate across great distances through electrical wires
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show | Produce the first effective light bulb in 1879
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Free Enterprise System | show 🗑
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National Market | show 🗑
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show | A company chartered by a state and recognized in law as a separate "person" issuing stocks to shareholders
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show | A person who starts a business hoping to make a profit
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show | The period from 1865 to 1900 when many entrepreneurs reaped huge profits, created immense wealth for themselves and lived lavish lifestyles
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show | Entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age like Carnegie and Rockerfeller are sometimes referred to this way because they forged the modern industrial economy
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show | Entrepreneurs of the Gilded Age are sometimes referred to this way because of the ruthless tactics they used to destroy competition and keep their workers' wages low
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Andrew Carnegie | show 🗑
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show | Concern for humanity usually expressed through a donation of money or time
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John D. Rockerfeller | show 🗑
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Monopoly | show 🗑
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Interstate Commerce Act | show 🗑
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Sherman Anti-trust Act | show 🗑
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Child Labor | show 🗑
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show | The theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market
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show | An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests
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show | The first national labor union joining together all skilled and unskilled workers. It ultimately failed due to a lack of organization and a lack of unity among the skilled and unskilled workers
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show | American Federation of Labor (1881) Consisted of separate unions of skilled workers which joined together into a federation. Membership was limited to skilled, specialized for workers
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Samuel Gompers | show 🗑
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Urbanization | show 🗑
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show | The study of population
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Bessemer Process | show 🗑
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show | single-room apartments, often without heat or lighting. Frequently, many families shared a single toilet
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Political Machine | show 🗑
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Political "Bosses" | show 🗑
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Immigration | show 🗑
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show | Reasons immigrants choose to leave their home and home country, can include oppression, poverty, religious discrimination, or ethnic persecution
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Pull Factors | show 🗑
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show | Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880, who spoke no English
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show | A neighborhood where people of similar background and culture live
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Nativists | show 🗑
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Americanization | show 🗑
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show | 1882 first federal law to restrict immigration. Chinese immigrants banned for 10 years
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Frontier | show 🗑
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Great Plains | show 🗑
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Klondike Gold Rush | show 🗑
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show | 1862. Gave 160 acres of government land to any citizen who "improved" the land for five years by building a house and growing crops. After five years, the homesteaders would own land
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Indian Wars | show 🗑
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show | Areas of land given to Native American Tribes by the US government. Often undesirable land and smaller than the area the tribes had previously occupied
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Dawes Act | show 🗑
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