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Haymarket Riot |
Was the afternoon of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstrationat Haymarket square in Chicago. |
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John D. Rockefeller |
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. |
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Sand Creek Massacre |
The U.S. Army had persuaded a group of Cheyenne to stop raiding farms and return to their reservation, but then army troops attacked killing 150 people. |
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Americanization |
Process in which immigrants were forced to abandon their traditional cultures and adopt the culture of white America. |
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Immigration |
The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
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Entrepreneurs |
Risk takers who started new ventures within the economic system of capitalism. |
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Laissez-Faire |
A system whee companies are allowed to conduct business without interference by the government. |
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Capitalism |
Economic system in which most businesses are privately owned. |
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Tenements |
A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. |
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Jane Addams |
Jane Addams was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. |
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Lynching |
Being killed by a mob or group of people. |
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Bessemer Process |
A steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort. |
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Vertical and Horizontal Integration |
“It is the process of acquiring or merging with competitors, leading to industry consolidation.” “Horizontal integration is a strategy where a company acquires, mergers or takes over another company in the same industry value chain.” |
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Andrew Carnegie |
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He built a leadership role as a philanthropist for America and the British Empire. |
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Leland Standford |
Amasa Leland Stanford was an American tycoon, industrialist, politician and founder of Stanford University. |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Enacted after the Reconstruction period, these lawscontinued in force until 1965. |
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Segregation |
The separation of different race. |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal." |
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Discrimination |
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. |
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Social Darwinism |
A view of society based on Charles Darwin's scientific theory of natural selection. |
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Secession |
The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state. |
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Union vs Confederacy |
The Union was the North and the Confederacy was the South. |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Lincoln singed it to free slaves. |
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Ellis Island and Angel Island |
The main difference between Ellis Island and Angel Island was that the majority of the immigrants that traveled through Angel Island were from Asian countries, such as China, Japan, Russia, and South Asia. The facility was created to monitor the flow of Chinese immigrants entering the country. |
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Booker T. Washington vs W.E.B Du Bois |
Booker believed that African Americans had to accept segregation for the moment while Du Bois believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediately. |