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35 Cards in this Set
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Inventions
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Telegraph, Telephones, Airplanes, Horseless Carriage, Trancontinental Railroad, Refined Oil, Bessemer Process
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Bessemer Process
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Faster and more refined way of making steel
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Vertical Integration
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Control all means of production for a product (bottom up)
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Horizontal Integration
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Control other companies that produce the same product
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Rockefeller
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Head of the oil industry; Horizontal Integration
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Carnegie
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Head of the steel industry;
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Vanderbilt
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Bought up small pieces of railroad and connected them, became a millionaire
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Gould
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Sold Railroad Stock
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Captains of Industry
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Controlled Government with buisness
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Robber Barons
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Bad Name for the captains of industry
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Four Factors of Production
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Land, Labor, Capitol, Entrepeureship
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Trust
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Larger company controlds and manages the stocks of smaller companies
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Monopoly
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Control of an industry by one company
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Working Conditions during this period
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Unsafe & Unfair
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Laissez-Faire
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Hands off from the governemnt within the economic system
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Social Gospel
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Hands on from the government helping your neighbor out; christian values
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Push Factors
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Escape religious and politcal persecution; ravashed country
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Pull Factors
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Politcal & Religous Freedom, Opportuinty
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Four Main Immigrant Groups Coming Over To The Us
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Irish, German, Italian, Slavic
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New Immigrants
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Southern and Eastern Europe; Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Jewish
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Old Immigrants
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Eastern Europe; Protestant
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How Immigrants Were Received...Politically
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To Be Used as a Vote by given a job and bread
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How Immigrants Were Received...Socially
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Poor Accommodations, physical exams, questioning, overall accepted badly
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How Immigrants Were Received...Economically
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Abused in the workforce, given little pay
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Nativist
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Person Native to the country
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Political Machines
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A well organized local political group that can turn out voters on specific issues
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Tammany Hall
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A political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City seeking political control by corruption and bossism
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William Tweed
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American politician and tammany leader, gained absolute power in the democractic party within the city
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Thomas Nast
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cartoonist that brought down Tweed by showing his corruption
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George Washington Plunkitt
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Part of Tammany Hall; practiced "honest graft"
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Graft
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the term for corruption in politics that involves crooked money making schemes
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Why were political machines so powerful
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controlled votes by offering jobs, and political favors
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Settlement Houses
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committed to improved living conditions of the poor
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Tenements
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crowded houses for immigrants
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Assistance for Immigrants
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Given opportunities
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