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Assimilation
When a group of people form to reach a certian goal. -
Assembly system
Manufacturing system in which products are made peice by peice and made or by robots. -
The American dream
a term given to the united states by immigrants as an ethos type exapmle of how good it is their. -
Wesern settlement
Settlement of the Americas from other countires. -
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Growth of railroads
Development through trade and traveling, helping the economy though it. -
Manifest Destiny
Belief that American settlers had the right to expand to the west. -
industrilization
period of social and economic change in an were more factories apeear. -
Bessemer process
First enexpensive production of molten steel. -
Teddy Roosevelt
The 28th president of the United States. -
The homested Act
Gave applicants land the was given for little or no cost, the only thing they had to do was improve it over a 5 year span. -
Barbed wire
An invention made up in the south to keep cttle and livestock contained in a space. -
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Immigration
While during the civil war, many came from other counries looking for work. -
Haymarket riot
Began as a peaceful protest ended in a bombing and then an aftermath after throwing dynamite at a policeman. -
Automobile
created and patend by Carl Brenz, he had made the first moterized car. -
Dawes Act
let the president survey the indian land and divide it into seperate lands for them. -
Battle of wounded knee
Last battle of the american indian wars, were over 300 killed and many wounded. -
Eugene vs Debbs
Responsible for an attack on the American Railroad for better wages. -
Trust and anti trust
Document that kept track of who to trust and who not to. -
Eugenics
Is the theory or practice of improving the human population. -
John d rockefeller
Founder of the stndard oil compay. -
Pure food and drug act
Enforcement of better food qualities and healthier for them. -
Americanization
Used by americans for other cultures becoming similar to their culture. -
Upton sinclair and the factory system
In 1919 he released a book expose mocking the food industry and showing how bad it was. -
Andrew Carnegie
Person who led the enormous expansion of the steel industry. -
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Labor unions
The represtitives of workers and fair pair and treatment. -
Nativism
political favorotism towards something. -
political corruption
The use of power by government officials for either their own benefit or for another country. -
Political machines
Political organization in which a boss or group of individuals tell corperation what to do. -
Urbanization
Growth of population in city areas. -
federal indian policy
The trade of indian land taken over by the United States. -
social darwanism
Different types of levels of assuming different types of assumptions. -
Vertical and horizontal integration
Where a company uses strtegic tactics for more buissness.
