social studies big buissness &+ immigration
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- sherman anti-trust act
- a law passed in 1890 that made it illegal for corporations to gain control of industries by forming trusts
- labor union
- a group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions
- mass production
- the manufacturing of products in very large quantities in factories, especially using mechanization and assembly-line methods
- chinese exclusion act
- enacted in 1882 this law banned chinese immigration for 10 years
- andrew carnegie
- controller of the steel industry in the late 1800's
- john d. rockefeller
- controller of the oil industry in the late 1800's
- melting pot
- a place where culture blends
- stock
- a share of a company
- urbanization
- growth of cities resulting from industrialization
- tenements
- an apartment building that is usually run down and overcrowded (where immigrants lived)
- monopoly
- when one company controls an entire industry
- push factors
- a factor that pushes a person out of theur home country
- laissez faire
- a theory that stated that business, if unregulated, would act in a way that would benifit the nation
- free enterprise system
- business can be conducted freely based on choices of the individual
- pull factors
- a factor that pulls a person toward a new country
- strike
- to stop work to demand better working conditions
- dividend
- a profit
- nativist
- a native-born American who wanted to eliminate foreign influence
- transcontinental railroad
- a railroad the spanned the entire country
- quotas
- a proportional share of something that somebody should contribute or receive