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Unit 11- Industrialization and Urbanization in the gilded age

  • Realism

    Realism
    Realism, sometimes called naturalism, in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, or implausible, exotic, and supernatural elements.
  • Reservation system

    Reservation system
    A computer reservation system or central reservation system (CRS) is a computerized system used to store and retrieve information and conduct transactions related to air travel, hotels, car rental, or other activities.
  • New immigrants

    New immigrants
    New immigration was a term from the late 1880's that came from the influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants from southern and eastern Europe areas that previously sent few immigrants.
  • American federation of labor

    American federation of labor
    The American Federation of Labor was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.
  • Mechanization of agriculture

    Mechanization of agriculture
    Mechanised agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanise the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity. In modern times, powered machinery has replaced many farm jobs formerly carried out by manual labour or by working animals such as oxen, horses and mules.
  • Regionalism

    Regionalism
    the theory or practice of regional rather than central systems of administration or economic, cultural, or political affiliation.