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railroads
railroads created easy transportation and created a lot of jobs -
american dream
a pull factor for immigrants -
political machines
corrupt votes through "charitable acts" -
manifest destiny
idea of manifest destiny began -
labor unions
formed to protect the work force from companies (set wages and healthbenifets etc.) -
andrew carnegie
andrew carnegie steel tycon rags to riches -
john rockefeller
tycon of standard oil company -
boss tweed
corrupt helped get democrats into office -
vertical and horizontal integration
horizontal merge
vertical force -
bessemer process
steel production advancement -
eugene v. debs
american union leader -
industrialisation
more jobs poor conditions -
west setteling
homestead act caused a lot of setteling in the west -
homestead act
act that gave land to settelers for very little money even if that land was the native americans' -
barbed wire
barded wire was reached mass production -
urbanisation
inovations inventions galore -
federal indian policy
relation sship between government and indians -
immigration
immigration restrictions -
social darwinism
survival of the fittest -
upton sinclair and factory system
wrote of factory conditions -
haymarket riot
omb was thrown at a squad of policemen attempting to break up a labor rally -
dawes act
forced assimilation basicly -
assimilation
assimilation forced upon natives -
wounded knee
horrible masacre -
trusts and anti-trusts
sherman anti-trust act limited power of companies -
nativism
reastablishment of native culture -
teddy roosevelt
26th president -
automobile
henry ford formed well ford -
pure food and drug act
created due to upton sinclair and the poor condition of food -
americanization
spread of american ideas and customs -
assembly line
developed by henry ford -
eugenics
practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population
