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26 Cards in this Set
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Patents |
rights the inventor receives
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Bessemer Steel Process |
-created the manufacture of steel, - (as a result we have skyscrapers/bridges) - Henry Bessemer created this
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Eli Whitney |
interchangeable parts
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Thomas A Edison |
-power plant -light bulb
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George Westinghouse |
- alternating current (AC) |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
telephone |
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Brooklyn Bridge |
used steel cables |
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Elisha Otis |
-Otis Elevator Company -safety elevator |
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Laissez Faire |
- little or no government regulation of economic affairs |
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Robber Barrons |
- wealthy and powerful businessmen - captains of industry - bad |
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John D Rockefeller |
- robber baron -Standard Oil Company, created american oil industry - gave away money for education, medicine, science |
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Monopoly |
- no competitors -only company selling a product or service to the market |
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Sherman AntiTrust Act |
- eliminated monopolies -law passed to regulate large corporations and trusts |
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Gilded Age |
-greed and corruption -reform and generosity distracted people from the real corruption |
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Andrew Carnegie |
-steel industry -gave money to education, libraries, world peace - poor to rich -robber baron |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
-prohibited chinese laborers from entering the country -chinese kids can not go to school with white children
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Gentlemans Agreement |
- ended the policy where japanese children could not enroll in public schools - reduced the amount of japanese immigrants coming to US |
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treatment of immigrants |
- asians were targets of suspicion, hostility, discrimination - european immigrants settled near ports of entry for job oppertunity -chinese lived in neighborhoods to avoid conflict -very few immigrants lived in the south -had to pass a physical exam to enter the US -mexicans went to south west for new farmland jobs |
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Tenement apartments |
-poor -immigrants -bell shaped |
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Progressive beliefs |
-vote on which candidates would be nominated -eliminating corruption -prohibition -woman's suffrage -antitrust laws -reform
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Muckrakers |
-journalists who exposed the nation's problems to draw attention to major issues (ex: working class, corruption in government and business) |
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Upton Sinclair |
-muckraker -attack on meat packers -The Jungle |
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The Jungle |
-revealed terrible conditions in the food industry -Upton Sinclair |
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Jane Addams |
-tried to better the lives of immigrants -started the Hull House in Chicago -settlement houses |
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Settlement Houses |
-provided education/help to working class -boarding houses, nurseries, dispensaries, clubs, lectures, classes |
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Moral Reform |
-prohibition -- abandoned families, disease, poverty, gambling... --- didn't work because it led to crime and illicit sale of illegal alcohol |
