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immigration
people from other countries came to america for work. -
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manifest destiny and settlement of the west
manifest destiny was where white people believed that all land that wasn't settled yet was rightfully theirs, and the settlement of the west is where people took the west and established settlements there. -
growth of railroads
farmers transported goods easier, and they stole land from native americans in order to build the railroads. -
bessemer process
make steel by shooting burst of air into molten iron -
boss tweed in the gilded age
in the 1860's boss tweed pocketed 65% of the funding for buildings in New York City -
homestead act
american citizens were given 150 acres of land for a small fee and if they improved the land then after 5 years it was their land -
barbed wire invented
used to keep people outside and whatever was inside was kept inside -
labor unions
an organization of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interest. -
urbanization and industrialization
people moved to the city instead of the country so that they can work in the city and make money. -
John D. Rockefeller
the founder of the standard oil company -
automobile invented
invented by german inventor carl benz. -
Haymarket riot
a bombing that happened at a labor demonstration. -
the dawes act
native americans were promised citizenship in 1922 if they denounced their ways. -
assimilation, americanization, & nativism
they took native american children and sent them to boarding schools to teach them to be white children. -
political machines
polotical parties that corrupted the government. -
andrew carnegie
led the enormous expansion of the american steel industry in the late 19th century. -
Social Darwinism
A concept in the 1890's of survival of the fittest except in everyday social circumstance's. -
trust and antitrust
to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies. -
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political corruption
poloticians were taking bribes and rewarding supporters with government jobs. -
battle of wounded knee
native americans were doing a ghost dance which they believed would bring back everyone the white man has killed, the white men freaked out and killed all the indians
in the camp -
Eugene V. Debbs
an american union leader, he became president of the american railway union -
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teddy roosevelt
president of the united states -
upton sinclai and the factory system
wrote a book about how the factories were run and how the workers were treated -
pure food and drug act
was created to stop the regulation and production of unsafe foods or drugs and you couldn't lie about whats in your product anymore it had to be true -
assembly line
henry ford created the assembly line so that things can be mass produced. -
Eugenic's
improving human population by controlled breeding and increase the occurrences of desirable heritable characteristic. -
vertical and horizontal integration
companies integrate multiple stages of production of a small number of production in 1870
