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Industrial revolution & immigration vocab
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09/24/2014

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Bessemer steel process
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New invention to make steel. Cut down costs and increased production
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Refinery
Definition
Purifies the oil in the oil making process
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Thomas Edison
Definition
Invented the steady light bulb
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Alexander Graham Bell
Definition
Invented the telephone
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Isaac Singer
Definition
He improved the sewing machine to increase clothing production
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Henry Ford
Definition
Invented the model T 4 wheeled car and came up with the idea for an assembly line production factory
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Wilbur and Orville Wright
Definition
Made first piloted flight in a gas powered plane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
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Andrew Carnegie
Definition
Scottish immigrant who started Carnegie steel and bought out competitors
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John Rockefeller
Definition
Started standard oil and was successful at combining and consolidating businesses and eliminating competition
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Tariff
Definition
Tax on imported goods
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Business Cycle
Definition
The pattern of good and bad times in the economy
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Robber Barron
Definition
A business leader who became wealthy though dishonest methods
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Corporation
Definition
A business owned by investors who buy a part of the company through shares of stock
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Monopoly
Definition
A company that wipes out its competitors and controls the industry
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Trust
Definition
A combo of corps. For the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices of an industry
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Philanthropist
Definition
Person who gives away large sums of money to charity's or the community
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Gilded Age
Definition
Period of late 1800s and early 1900s that was a time of wealth but also increasing number of poor
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Sweat Shop
Definition
Places where workers labored long hours under poor conditions and low wages
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Socialism
Definition
All members of a society are equal owners of all businesses. Share work and profits
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Mass production
Definition
Producing large quantities of goods at a rapid pace
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Urbanization
Definition
The growth of cities due to the increasing numbers of factory jobs
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Tenement
Definition
An apartment house that is usually rundown and overcrowded
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Laissez Faire
Definition
Theory that stated that if government left businesses alone and unregulated, they would benefit the nation financially
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Definition
Outlawed trusts that restrained trade. Was difficult to enforce because it was not clearly written.
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Push Factor
Definition
Conditions that drive people to leave their country. (bad things)
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Pull Factors
Definition
Conditions that attract people to a new country. (Good things)
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Pogrom
Definition
Organized massacre of Jews. (Took place in Russia at this time)
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Emma Lazarus
Definition
Poet who wrote the "New Collossus" at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
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Assimilate
Definition
Blending into other culture.
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Old Immigration
Definition
Immigrants in the early 1800's from Northern and Western Europe. Easily assimilated because of similar language, religion and race to Americans.
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New Immigrants
Definition
Arrived in late 1800's early 1900's from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia. Difficulty assimilating due to a variety of languages, religions and ethnic backgrounds.
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Ethnic Group
Definition
A group of people that share a common culture.
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American Protective Association
Definition
Group that campaigned to ban immigration if the person was illiterate in their own native language.
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Breaker Boys
Definition
Boys that worked in the coal mines for low pay and under dangerous conditions.
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Lewis Hine
Definition
Photographed and documented child labor in the early 1900's.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Definition
March 25, 1911 - Fire that killed 125 young women in a factory with unsafe conditions and no safety features.
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Samuel Gompers
Definition
Founded the American Federation of Labor.
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Scabs
Definition
Hired to replace striking workers.
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American Federation of Labor
Definition
Union for workers that fought for better wages and conditions. Did not allow minorities or women.
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Knights of Labor
Definition
Union for workers that allowed women, minorities and unskilled workers. Will eventually fail due to many failed and violent strikes.
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Railroad Strike of 1877
Definition
Violent railroad strike when wages were cut. State militia brought in to end strike.
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Bombing at Haymarket Square
Definition
5 anarchists charged with throwing bomb into a crowd at an 8 hour workday.
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Pinkertons
Definition
State militia in Pennsylvania that broke up the Homestead Strike
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Blacklists
Definition
List of names passed around by employers warning them not to hire workers that had previously caused a strike.
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Injunctions
Definition
Court order that bans communication between workers and the union.
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Collective Bargaining
Definition
When the union workers and employers negotiate and agree upon wages, hours and conditions.
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Ragtime
Definition
Mix of African - American and European music.
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William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
Definition
Leading publishers of newspapers and magazines.
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Poll Tax
Definition
Tax on African Americans to prevent blacks from voting.
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Literacy Test
Definition
Test given to African Americans to see if they could read or write in order to vote.
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Grandfather Clause
Definition
If ancestor was able to vote then you could vote.
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
Laws in south to enforce segregation.
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Plessy vs. Fergueson
Definition
Supreme Court case that legalized segregation.
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
Created Tuskegee Institute to advance blacks economically.
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W.E.B. Dubois
Definition
Co-founder of NAACP to reject segregation.
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