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Industrialization
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History
10th Grade
09/18/2012

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Boss (William) Tweed
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Very influential person in New York State, had his hand in politics, police, etc. Basically ran NY
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Political Machine
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Manipulated voters ex. They hand out food to poor people and tell them to go vote for a certain person
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Social Darwinism
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Survival of the fittest as it relates to business
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Rockefeller
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Idustrialist who established Standard Oil
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Scabs
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Replacements for striking workers
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Samuel Morris
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Industrialist that invented the telegraph
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Robber Barons
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Critics referred to rich industrialists as __
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Patent
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Exclusive rights to make or sell an invention
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Glided Age
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Mark Twain said a thin layer of gold covering this city
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New York City
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During the 1800s the port of interest was located in what city?
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Captain of Industry
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When rich industrialists were viewed in a positive way
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Alexander Grambell
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The inventor that established the American telegraph & telephone
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Working on railroads
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What attracted many Asian immigrants?
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Working condition & Low pay
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Two reasons factory workers went on strike
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Railroad and Telegraph
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2 things that revolutionized communication
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Suburb
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A city we refer to as urban, country as rural, what is the edge of the city called?
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Inventions/population/natural resources
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Give 1 thing that helped to spark industrial life in the US?
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Jobs & Political freedom
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2 reasons immigrants came to the US
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Horizontial Monopoly
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John D. Rockefeller was able to control all Stanard Oil with what type of monopoly
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Bessesmer
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Ths inventor invented a way to make more steel more efficently
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Dirty & Crowded
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2 characteristics for factory workers
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Technological revolution
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Which is the biggest impact on American industrial growth
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Vertical Monopoly
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Andrew Carnegie was able to gain steel industry by what?
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Monopoly
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When a company owns all stuff
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Because of over population & Not enough room
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Why in NYC did they had to build up not out
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Industrialization/Jobs in factories
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Give 1 reason that the US became more urban
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Railroads
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What is the 1 thing that is linking our country together
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