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Describe the term Industrialization.   show
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what is Vertical Integration?   show
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what is Horizontal Integration?   show
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show Telephone, electric light bulb, radio, electricity (alternating current), assembly line production, vacuum cleaner... among others  
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Describe the term “nativism.” How could this have been a problem for new immigrants arriving?   show
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What countries had immigrants emigrated from to the United States?   show
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show Immigrants lived in poor living conditions, often in places called tenements. These conditions were so poor, social activist and muckraking journalist Jacob Riis captured photographs of the conditions and exposed it to the American public.  
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explain what the Naturalization Act of 1870.   show
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show A businessman who acquired a fortune in the late 19th Century by ruthless means.  
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What is a "Captain of Industry"?   show
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Describe Social Darwinism.   show
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show Ellis Island and Angel Island  
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show the first major labor organization in the United States, they organized unskilled and skilled workers, campaigned for an 8-hour workday, aspired to form a cooperative society in which laborers owned the industries in which they worked.  
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What was the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?   show
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show Menlo Park, NJ  
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show Most immigrants were paid low wages working in sweatshops. Women faced harassment in the workplace. Safety regulations were poor. Child labor practices were widespread.  
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What new groups entered the workforce during this time period?   show
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show mvmnt of 1000s of AfrAmer's from the South to Nrthrn cities to find work in industrial areas. Segregation & the lack of economic opportunities caused it & paved way for Afr. Amer's that would lead to the Civil Rights Mvmnt by confronting injustices  
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show baseball games, beach activities, amusement parks, cinemas, circus, music halls, pubs  
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How did the social classes differ when it came to leisure activities?   show
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What was the Great Uprising and what was the outcome?   show
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What is the Bessemer process?   show
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show Working class families needed the additional income from the children. They would often times lie about their children's ages to get them past child labor laws.  
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show Rockefeller – Oil Carnegie – Steel Vanderbilt – Railroads Ford – Automobiles, Assembly line production J.P. Morgan – Banking  
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What was the main idea behind Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth”?   show
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show Immigrants lived in poor living conditions, often in places called tenements. These conditions were so poor, social activist and muckraking photojournalist Jacob Riis captured images of the conditions and exposed it to the American public.  
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show Carnegie’s plant in PA wanted to negotiate with individual workers & not the union. Workers did not comply & were locked out of the plant guarded by armed guard & were replaced by “scab” workers. Violence ensued with some fatalities, and the union failed  
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show Factories started to use electricity. Many workers were getting used to being on a "time clock" for the first time. Machines were becoming more prevalent.  
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show it wanted to moderate the effects of poverty and help recent immigrants by providing social and educational opportunities for them in the surrounding neighborhood.  
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show Carnegie, Jay Gould, Vanderbilt - all men who owned railroad companies experiencing strikes  
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