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24 Cards in this Set
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Monopoly
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Having complete control in the market-place without any outside competition
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Bessemer process
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precess developed in the 1850s that lead to the faster steel production
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Hay-market Riot
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Outbreak of violence with unemployed people
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Gilded Age
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the time period where the US experienced population and economic boom, many people became wealthy
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Spoils System
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Politicians practice of giving government jobs to his/her supporters
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Triangle Fire
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Deadliest industrial disaster, fire killled almost 400 women
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Knights of Labor
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Secret society that became the first truly national labor union in the US
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American Federation of Labor
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Labor organization that united skilled workers into national unions for industries
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Andrew Carnegie
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revolutionized steel and sold it at very low prices, founded his own company
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John D. Rockefeller
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Owned standard oil company, took over other companies
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Henry Ford
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Created the first inexpensive mass produced automobile
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Thomas Edison
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US inventor, especially of electrical devices
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Boss Tweed
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A man who cheated the US out of millions of dollors
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Thomas Nast
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cartoonist
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Upton Sinclair
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Exposed the unsanitary conditions at meat-packing plants, wrote "The Jungle"
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Jane Addams
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Social worker and writer, nobel peace prize winner in 1931
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Ida Tarbell
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Criticized the standard oil company
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Lewis W. Hine
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Photographer of child labor
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Jacob Riis
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wrote abot the lives of impovershed immigrants in NYC
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Melting pots
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A country, situation in which a blending of races, people or cultures is taking place
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Mixing Bowls
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People of all races are being "mixed" into American cultures
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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a law that banned chinese immigration for 10 years declaring that no chinese people already in the US could become citizens
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Gentlemen's Agreement
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Japan agreed to limit immigration to the US in exchange president Roosevelt agreed to put pressure on San Francisco to ensure that Japanese kids were being separated in schools
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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a law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade
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