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23 Cards in this Set
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5 reasons why industrial growth took place |
1) Natural Resources 2) Immigration 3) Increased Supply of Capital 4) Invention and Innovation 5) Railroad |
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Trust |
Huge corporation whose goal was to create monopoly control |
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Monopoly |
When one company has complete control of production and sale of a product |
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Patent |
Gives exclusive right of production to an invention |
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JP Morgan |
Bought companies, built them up, sold them for more |
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Carnegie |
Made great wealth in the steel industry |
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Rockefeller |
Made wealth in oil |
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Gilded Age-Why golden? |
Extreme wealth for a few |
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Gilded Age- Why not so golden |
Everyone else was poor Terrible living conditions Awful working conditions |
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Sears |
Created Catalogs |
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Teachers uses of Catalogs |
Reading, Math, Geography |
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Laissez Faire |
"Hands off" when it comes to business, industry, etc. |
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Social Darwinism |
The strong will survive and prosper, the weak will be destroyed |
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Ellis Island |
Place in NY, where almost all immigrants entered the U.S |
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Tenement |
Housing for immigrants |
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Oldcomers |
Established American families that had been there for 100 years or so |
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Newcomers |
Name applied to those new immigrants |
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Edison |
Ginat Inventor of this time period Invented light bulb |
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Skyscrapers |
New building that we were able to make once steel was mass produced |
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Time Zones |
Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific |
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Natural Resources and Population growth handouts |
1)Our pop grew significantly from 1850-1900, 3x as many people 2) Urban grew 6x more |
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Reasons why the "Triangle Shirt Waste Factory Fire" was so bad |
1) Fire exit was locked 2)Fire escape collapsed 3) Main exit allowed only single file traffic 4)One doorway was blocked 5)Water didn't work 6) Ladders too short |
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What are the advances that came out of the fire that is still part of our lives today |
1)Must have automatic sprinklers 2) Doors push out 3) Buildings must have multiple exits |
