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| a buisness in which many people own shares, or parts of the buisness |
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| what occors when more than one buisness tries to sell the same goods or services |
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| a company that has no compition |
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| organization of workers that tries to pay and working conditions for its members |
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| the stoping of work by workers |
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| unfair treatment or punishment |
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| a group of people who share a language or culture |
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| a rundown, poorly mantained apartment |
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| a fenced area where large numbers of animals such as hog and cattle are kept until they are used as food or moved to another place |
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| a system of trains used to move people aroound citys |
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| a poor, crowded part of a city |
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| a comunity center for people in citys |
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| reformers who want to make change for the better |
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| a person who racks up a point or an unpleasnt truth |
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| the building of emperers by adding colinies |
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| a kind of writing that exagerates news to shock readers |
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| a narrow piece of land that links to larger pieces of land. it has water on both sides |
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| I invented the oil cup. My invention helped machines run longer by dripping oil over the moving parts. Who am I? |
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| I invented a machine that made paper bags with flat bottoms. Now they can hold more! My invention is still in use today. Who am I? |
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| Hello? I invented the telephone! Who am I? |
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| I created over 1,000 inventions such as the phonograph/record player and the electric light bulb. Now businesses can be more productive! Who am I? |
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| I invented the process of creating steel. Now steel is much cheaper to produce, which is great because it's a super strong material. Who am I? |
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| I had a hugely successful steel company. Thanks, Bessemer! |
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| My oil company was even more successful than Carnegie's company. My company, Standard Oil, was a coropration. Who am I? |
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| I was the AFL president in charge of trade unions. Who am I? |
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| How did Standard Oil become a monopoly? |
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| Rockefeller bought out smaller businesses to reduce competition |
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The amount of product or goods that are able or available to be sold
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| The amount of things that people want to buy |
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| How are supply and demand related? |
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| As product supply increases, product demand decreases (there are fewer people who now want/need it). As product demand increases, product supply decreases (there is less available product to buy) |
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| Describe the working conditions in factories in the late 1800s |
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| The conditions were incredibly dangerous, with little pay and long hours (10-12 hours a day) |
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| Why were labor unions formed? |
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| To fight for better and safer working conditions |
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| Describe how European and Asian immigrants were treated at the turn of the century. Was one treated worse than the other? |
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| Both groups of immigrants were discriminated against. Asain immigrants were treated worse. They did not 'blend' in as well and had a much different culture than Americans where as Europeans were more similiar. |
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| Why did employers prefer to hire immigrants? |
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| Immigrants were willing to work more hours for less pay than American citizens |
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| Why did some Americans want immigration to end? |
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| Many Americans wanted immigration to end because they feared immigrants would take all of their jobs |
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| What were the benefits of rapid transit systems? |
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| Rapid transit systems made it possible to move people more quickly around crowded cities |
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| How did inventions in the late 1800s affect business' productivity? |
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| Inventions helped businesses be more productive by allowing them to stay open later, produce more things for less money, and people could work at a faster pace. |
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| How did Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle improve society? What was it about? |
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| This book inspired the creation of new laws to make food safer. It exposed how unhealthy and unsanitary food production was at the time. |
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| Why did citites grow so much at the turn of the century? What were the effects of the overcrowding? |
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| Millions of immigrants moved to American cities for jobs and people in rural areas moved to the cities to take advantage of the new inventions and for the jobs those inventions created. |
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| Which areas became US territories during this time period? |
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| Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Phillippines. |
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| What was the result of the Spanish American War? |
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| Spain gave the US Puerto Rico, the Phillippines and Guam. |
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| Why did Congress declare war on Spain? |
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| The US Navy ship MAINE exploded in a Cuban harbor. |
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| What was the Panama Canal? |
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| The Panama Canal was a canal that connected the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. |
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| Who was the US President that had a large role in the creation of the Pana Canal? |
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| Describe the significande of the Panama Canal |
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| 1. It made trade and transit cheaper and easier 2. It was incredibly expensive and dangerous to make (working conditions, extreme temperatures and disease) 3. The use of locks and water pumps helped ships travel through the camal that was on unleveled land. |
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| What was the Great Migration? |
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| The Great Migrations was when millions of African/Black Americans moved to northern cities for jobs and other opportunities |
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| Why did the Great Migration occur? |
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| 1. Steel mills, railroad yards, automobile plants, meat packing and food procssing plants offered better paying jobs than industries in the south 2. Adults could vote in the north and their children could go to public shool there. |
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| What two groups gained more equality during this time? |
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| Women and African/Black Americans. |
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| What did women and African/Black Americans want during this time? |
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| Both wanted the right to vote, attend college, and equal pay and opportunity in the work force. |
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| What was created to help women and African Americans gain equality during this time? |
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| For women, the 19th admendment was passed giving them the righ to vote and for African/Black Americans the NAACP was formed which fought for equal rights. |
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