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Factory system
the way of work in the factories , one of the earliest one to open was John Lombe's water-powered silk mill at Derby -
industrialization
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Growth of Railroads
When railroads became more commonly used. -
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Manifest destiny
the belief held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences. -
Bessemer process
A method for making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out excess carbon and impurities. (inexspensive) -
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new inventions
elevator, sewing machine, typewriter, telephone,subway,lightbulb -
Boss Tweed
Leader of the Democratic Tammany Hall, New York political machine -
settlement of the west
massive migration of white settlers into the Old Northwest, the Old Southwest and the Far West -
The homestead act
An act passed by Congress in 1862 promising ownership of a 160-acre area of public land to a citizen or head of a family who had to live on it and took care of the land for five years after the initial claim. -
Barbed wire
a double wire with diamond-shaped metal barbs; Indians seeking to protect their crops against large herds of cattle soon discovered the new invention of barbed wire -
Federal indian policy
Federal Indian policy refers the relationship between the United States Government and the Indian Tribes that exist within its borders. -
Assimilation
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family -
Political Corruption in the gilded age
when a single corporation achieves control over an entire market it becomes a monoply -
John D. Rockfeller
He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company -
political machines
political machines controlled the activites of political parties in the city -
immigration
the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. -
Nativism
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Political Machines
Informal political group designed to gain and keep power in urban areas! They gave people what the city government can not and got political support -
haymarket riot
a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. -
Automobile
The transportation that changed the world -
The Dawes Act
adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into small areas for individual Indians -
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
the wounded knee massacare
A creek of southwest South Dakota. Some 200 Native Americans were massacred here by U.S. troops -
labor unions
an organized associatetion of workers , often in a trade of profession, form to protect and further rights and intrest -
Eugene V. Debbs
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States -
upton sinclair
famous author almost wote up to hundred novels. -
Urbanization
the act or fact of urbanizing, or taking on the characteristics of a city: -
Teddy Roosevelt
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pure food & drug act
a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. -
Americanization
outside of the united states is a term of the influence they have on other countries -
Assembly line
a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. -
Eugenics
the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population -
The American Dream
the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American. -
Social Darwinism
American Social Darwinism held that the social classes had no obligation towards those unequipped or under-equipped to compete for survival. -
Horizontial Integration
a practice in business by which companies that produce a similar product
