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- was a dominant philosophy of the gilded age in which free competition in the economy, like natural selection in the biological area, would ensure survival of the fittest for companies and people
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social darwinism
- was a dominant philosophy of the gilded age in which free competition in the economy, like natural selection in the biological area, would ensure survival of the fittest for companies and people
horatio alger
- wrote books that celebrated the "rags to riches" story and created a positive attitude towards business leaders in the post-Civil War era
frederick jackson turner
according to history -, a key factor in the development of american individualism and democracy was the frontier, and now without it urban squalor will follow
gospel of wealth
andrew carnegie's article entitled the - argued that god rewarded hard work with riches and at the same time demanded that the rich use their wealth to benefit society
vertical integration
businessmen of the gilded age controlled industries using -, in which all suppliers were bought up in a certain industry
horizontal consolidation
businessmen of the gilded age controlled industries using -, in which companies producing similar products merge
cattle
cities like abilene (KS), dodge city (KS), and chicago experienced massive population growth as a result of the boom of the - frontier after the civil war
brooklyn bridge
completed in 1883, the - became the symbol of the emergence of steel as a dominant building material
sherman antitrust act
during the last decade of the nineteenth century, the primary use of the - was to curb the power of labor unions
karl marx
european philosopher - scared capitalist minded americans with his talk of worker exploitation, alienation, and revolution
great railroad strike/ pullman strike
federal troops were used to crush both the - and the - during the gilded age, thus signaling federal support for the forces of management in the gilded age
transformer
george westinghouse invented the - to distribute electricity more effectively
a century of dishonor
helen hunt jacksons - was significant because it aroused public awareness of the wrongs that the federal government had inflicted on american indians
south
if theres one region that was "left behind" in all the industrializing that happened after the civil war its the -. despite words of advice from henry grady, little progress was made
lock out
in an effort to break unions, company owners used that - to exclude workers form the factory, like the opposite of a strike