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Factory System
The factory system was a method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s and later spread abroad. This system replaced the putting-out system. -
Growth of Railroads.
The railroads began to increase, people neeeded transportation, so poeple were payed to build the railroads. -
John D. Rockefeler
He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897 -
Boss Tweed
often erroneously referred to as William Marcy Tweed, and widely known as "Boss" Tweed – was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York -
Assimilation and Americanization
The act of changing Native Americans and turning them into anglos -
settlement of the west
was a group of farms and communities established by Norsemen from Iceland around AD 985 in medieval Greenland. Despite its name, the Western Settlement was more north than west of its companion -
Manifest Destiny
In the United States in the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent. -
Urbanization & Industrialization
Business and industrialization centered on the cities. The ever increasing number of factories created an intense need for labor, convincing people in rural areas to move to the city, and drawing immigrants from Europe to the United States. As a result, the United States transformed from an agrarian to an urban nation, and the demographics of the country shifted dramatically. -
Immigration
the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. people moved from all around trying to settle in the U.S. -
Teddy roosevelt
efore becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever.[ -
Labor Unions
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an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. -
Verticle and Horizontial integration
Horizontal integration is the opposite to vertical integration, where companies integrate multiple stages of production of a small number of production units. -
Social Darwins
Social Darwinism is the application of Darwinism, the concept of survival of the fittest, to everyday social circumstances. These can range from wealth debates to political debates, with the general principle being that the strong should see their power and wealth increase while the weak should see their power and wealth decrease. Different social Darwinists have different views about which groups of people are the strong and the weak, and they also hold different opinions about the precise mech -
Haymarket Riot
The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square[2] in Chicago. It began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civil -
Nativism
Nativism is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.[1] Nativism typically means opposition to immigration and support of efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and assumptions that they cannot be assimilated -
Andrew carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists of his era; his 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated wave after wave of philanthropy. -
Trust and Anti-Trust
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act, passed in 1890, was the first important federal measure to limit the power of companies that controlled a high percentage of market share. Ironically, in the 1890s the Act was used primarily to block strikes, since it prevented any 'conspiracy to restrict trade,' and businesses like the Pullman Railcar Company argued that labor unions were such conspiracies. -
Upton Sinclair and the Factory System
Upton Sinclair wrote a book called "The Jungle" That exposed meat packing plants and how discusting and unhealthy they are. -
Pure food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act. -
Eugene V. Debbs
Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. -
The american Dream
the traditional social ideals of the US, such as equality, democracy, and material prosperity. -
Homestead and Dawes Act
Both the Dawes Act and the Homestead Act played large roles in shaping the U.S. as we know it today, transforming much of the Western U.S. into farmland and establishing the country as one that was largely agrarian. Both involved redistributing lands for the purposes of farming, although in both cases the original intent ended up being quite different from the reality. Once the acts were fully played out, both left an indelible mark on the country and its people. -
Political Corruption and pilitical Machines
A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts -
Upton sinclair
Sinclair helped organize the American Civil Liberties Union and the League for Industrial Democracy. He ran unsuccessfully three times each for Congress and for governor of California. Upton Beall Sinclair was born on Sept. 20, 1878, in Baltimore. He died on Nov. 25, 1968 -
Eugenics
the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
