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32 Cards in this Set
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Assimilation
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to become like another group, to be absorbed into their culture
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immigration
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someone comes to a country
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mass production
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making goods throught assembly, cheap
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political machines
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organization that runs big city providing services in exchange for votes
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vertical integration
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a way to elimanate competition by owning all materials from raw materials to finish product
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horizontal integration
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elimanate competition by combining businesses
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trust
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a way to elimanate competition by organizing mulitply business under a board of trustees
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corporation
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raises money by selling stocks to the public
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monopoly
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business dominates industry and contols 90% of product
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gospel of wealth
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the belief that the rich had a moral duty to give money to society
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laissez faire
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the government is not involved with businesses
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nativism
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american born citizens hate immigrants
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chinese exclusion act
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allowed only a certian amout of chinese to come to america
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americanization
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to become an american
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urbanization
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moving from farms to the city
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free enterprise/ captialism
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privately owned businesses
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gilded age
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in the late 1800's rapid industrialization and corruption
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tenement
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crowded, dirty, and cheap apartments where most immigrants lived
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sweatshops
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women and children worked making clothing in harsh conditions, very low pay
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ghetto
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ethnic neighborhoods where immigrants lived with people like them
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child labor
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children under the age of 15 worked for the fraction of what adults were paid
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strike
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workers stopped working
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labor union
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organization who fought for workers rights
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push
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negative
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pull
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positive
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andrew carnegie
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standard steel
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john rockefeller
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standard oil
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american federation of labor
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only wanted skilled to join and perfered to negioate with businesses
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boss tweed
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political boss of political machine put in prison for ripping of the city or new york
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thomas nast
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cartoonist, pictures exposed tammany hall
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thomas edison
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invented lightbulb
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alexander graham bell
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invented telephone
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