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12 Cards in this Set
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The gilded age |
late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900 |
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Second industrial revolution |
Part of the rapid industrialization at the end of the 19th century. |
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John Rockefeller |
Ran an oil industry and was a philanthropist. |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Led the steel industry to expand. And he was an philanthropist. |
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Vertical integration |
combine to satisfy a common need. |
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Horizontal integration |
Monopolizing |
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Social Darwinism |
peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws. |
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Laissez faire |
Having the attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. |
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Transcontinental railroad |
constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa |
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The ghost dance |
new religious movement for Native American belief |
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John Muir |
was an influential Scottish-American naturalist and author |
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Knights of labor |
the first important national labour organization in the United States. |
