chapter 14 and 13 key terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 new immigrant | poland, hungary, greece, italy, russia, and eastern and southern europe |
| protective tariff | takes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally |
| laissez faire | allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation |
| patent | a grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell |
| thomas edison | receive more than 1,000 patents for new inventions |
| bessemer process | by 1890 the us was outproducing British steel manufacturers |
| suspension bridge | roadway is supended by steel cables |
| time zone | one for each hour of the day |
| mass production | systems depended upon machinery to carry out tasks that were once done by hand |
| corporation | group ownership |
| monopoly | complete control of a product or service |
| cartel | business making the same product agree to limit their production and thus keeping prices high |
| john d rockefeller | oil tycoon/ made deals with railroads to increase his profits |
| horizontal integration | consolitating many firms in the same business |
| trust | companies assign their stock to a board of trustees who combine them into a new organization |
| andrew carnegie | steel tycoon |
| vertical integration | allowed companies to reduce costs and charge higher prices to competitors |
| social darwinism | natural selection |
| IIC | to oversee railroad operations |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | outlawed any trust that operated in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states |
| Sweatshop | 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, in a small hot, dark, and dirty workhouses |
| company town | owned by the business and rented out to the employees |
| collective bargaining | negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions |
| socialism | economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private control of property and income |
| Knights of Labor | founded by Uriah Smith Stephens-people who wnated socialism |
| Terence v. Powderly | in 1881 he took on the leadership of the knights |
| Samuel Gompers | formed the American Federation of Labor/poor English immigrants |
| AFL | a craft union/ a loose organization of skilled workers from some 100 local unions devoted to special crafts or trades |
| Haymarket Riot | the knights of labor fizzled out as people shied away from radicalism |
| Homestead Strike | part of an epidemic of steel workers and miners' strikes that took place as economic depression spread across U.S. |
| Eugene V. Debs | led the American Railway Union |
| Pullman Strike | halted both railway traffic and mail delivery |
| entrenpreneur | people who invest in a product or enterprise in order to make a profit |
| steerage | the worst accomadations on the ship |
| Ellis Island | 1892 most immigrants were processed aty Ellis Island |
| Angel island | designed to filter out Chinese immigrants |
| Americanization | helping newcomers learn English and adopt American dress and diet |
| "melting pot" | blending cultures |
| nativism | belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882-prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers limited the civil rights of Chinese immigration already in US and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents |
| Urbanization | the number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically |
| Elisha Otis | developed a safety elevator |
| mass transit | public systems that could carry large numbers of people/inexpensive |
| suburb | housing in the cleaner and quiter perimeter |
| Frederick Law Olmstead | designed Fairmount Park, central park, etc |
| Tenement | low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible |
| mark twain | american society=rotten core covered with gold paint |
| gilded age | the new lifesyle that middle-class americans adopted during this period |
| conspicuous consumerism | people wanted and bought the many new products on the market |
| mass culture | household gadgets, toys, adn food often were the same from house to house |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrant who had fought in the civil war |
| William Randolph Hearst | Morning Journal designed to get the widest leadership |
| Horatio Alger | wrote about characters who succeded by hard work |
| Vaudeville | medley of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy |
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