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20 Cards in this Set
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Entrepreneur,
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A person who starts and organizes a business
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Corporation
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A large, organized company owned by stockholders
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Monopoly
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A corporation that has little competition
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Capital
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Money used for investments
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Urban
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Related to the city
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Steerage
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A part of a ship for passengers
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Tenement
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A cheaply made building divided into small apartments
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Slum
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A run-down urban area often without electricity or indoor plumbing
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Strike
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The act of stopping work to get better pay and working conditions
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Strikebreaker
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A work used to replace a striking union worker
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Andrew Carnegie
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Made his money in the steel industry
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Samuel Gompers
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He was the creator of the American Federation of Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers.
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John D. Rockefeller
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Made his money in the oil industry.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Made his money in the railroad business.
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Jacob Riis
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Muckraker. Photographer of immigrant life.He described the awful living conditions of poor people in the tenements of New York City in "How the other half lives"; led to many social reforms.
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J.P. Morgan
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Made his money in the banking business. Was one of the "Robber barons"
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Upton Sinclair
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Muckraker. Wrote The Jungle whichexposed the meatpacking industry.
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refugee
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one who is left homeless by war or persecution
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emigrant
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A person who leaves one country to move permanently to another country
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immigrant
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A person who moves into a new country
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