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Factory System
The factory system was a method of manufacturing -
Bessemer Process
a steel-making process. -
Teddy Roosevelt
26th President of the United States. -
Growth Of Railroads
WHen the pacific railroad act was passed this let the construction of railroads started increasing. -
Homestead Act
For a $10 fee an individual could register for land available to settle. -
Federal Indian Policy
the relationship between the United States Government and the Indian Tribes that exist within its borders. -
The American Dream
is the dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone. -
Social Darwinism
the survival of the fittest !! -
Political Corruption
the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain. -
Barbed Wire
wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction, invented by Joseph Glidden. -
Assimilation
European immigrants were not able to assimilate with the american society. -
Political Machines
Organized group that controls a city's political party, give services to voters, businesses for political, financial support. -
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. -
Immigration
Immigrants would come for a better life and to follow the American Dream. -
Upton Sinclair
was an American writer and reformer. -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Haymarket Riot
a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration. -
Invention of Automobile
A german inventor introduced the automobile in 1886. -
Dawes Act of 1887
Broke up the Tribal system granting 160 acre plots to individuals -
Americanization
assimilation into American culture -
Manifest Destiny
It was a belief that American settlers had to expand cross the continent. -
Battle of Wounded Knee
It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. -
Anti Trusts
was the first important federal measure to limit the power of companies that controlled a high percentage of market share. -
Trusts
often targeted silver and gold mines in the West and other large companies whose employees faced hazardous conditions and low wages. -
Urbanization
After the Civil War, America changed and industrialized on large scale, immigrants came and helped this becaue they wanted the "American Dream" -
Eugenics
s the theory and practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population. -
Industrialization
Gilded Age industrialization had its part in the Civil War, which started up the Congress and the northern states to build more railroads and a demand for goods. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
was the first federal law prohibiting the interstate transportation and sale of adulterated food enacted by Congress. -
Assembly Line
a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. -
Labor Unions
an organized association of workers. -
Andrew Carnegie
as a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry. -
Vertical Intergration
a style of growth and management control. -
Horizontal integration
a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike. -
Eugene V. Debbs
an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. -
John D. Rockefeller
an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company. -
Settlement of the West
By the 1870's western land was being divided and settled into, the cause of the expansion was the Homestead Act.
