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13 Cards in this Set
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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the first industrial organization in the United States; created by Samuel Gompers
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Bessemer Process
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a cheap and efficient way of making steel; developed around 1850
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Stealer
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Child Labor Laws
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legislation that was created to deter factories from hiring juveniles
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Adverse
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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legislation that prohibited certain ethnic groups from entering the U.S.
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Everglades
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attempts to drain this location led to a land boom
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Gentlemen's Agreement
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decision between the Japanese and United States governments to limit Japanese migration
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Great Migration
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the movement of six million African Americans from the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast
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Urban Planet
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Henry Flagler
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American industrialist; founder of Standard Oil; developer of the Atlantic coast of Florida
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Haymarket Riot
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the aftermath of a bombing that took place over a labor demonstration in Chicago
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Chicago
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Homestead Strike
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a workers demonstration to protest the business practices of Andrew Carnegie in Pennsylvania
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Ida Tarbell
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American author and journalist; a leading muckraker who fought against Standard Oil
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Innovation
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a new idea, or process introduced to help big businesses make money
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Social Darwinism
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applying biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, and business
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The Hunger Games
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