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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

- 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

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

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

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

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

in an effort to break unions, company owners used that - to exclude workers form the factory, like the opposite of a strike