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- tenement
- poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
- lynching
- murder of an individual by group or mob
- ellis island v. angel island
- ellis island was an immigrant station in new york through which europeans passed through; angel island was in san francisco bay, which many asians passed through
- gold standard
- a dollar could be redeemed only for gold in the US treasury
- labor unions
- formed by employees who wanted to pressure employers into higher wages and better working conditions
- cornelius vanderbilt
- american business leader who controlled New York Central Railroad and 4500 miles of railroad track
- entrepeneur
- risk taker/starts ventures within the economic system of capitalism
- george pullman
- american business leader who designed and built railroad cars, including sleeper cars and made a fortune
- plessy v. ferguson
- attempted to defeat a bill requiring segregation on railroads by trading votes w/ white democrats on the issue of state lottery
- political machine
- organization of professional politicians. made because many american cities had problems w/ crime, bad housing, and poor sanitation
- corporation
- a business w/ the legal status of an individual and owned by ppl who buy stock in the company
- laissez-faire
- a french term that translates to "let things alone." an economic doctrine that opposes gov'tal influence in businesses
- booker t. washington
- believed african americans had to accept segregation for the moment and that they can improve their situation by acquiring farming and vocational skills
- andrew carnegie
- scottish born industrialist who founded carnegie steel company and dominated american steel industry
- tammany hall
- the most notorious political machine; in NYC
- social darwinism
- only the fittest individuals will survive, and the good traits will be passed on, while the weaker species dies out
- WEB dubois
- believed african americans should strive for free rights immediately. helped found niagara movement to fight for rights
- settlement house
- neighborhood center staffed by professionals and volunteers for education, recreation, and social activities in poor areas
- capitalism
- an economic system in which most businesses are privately owned
- populist party
- party that supported free coinage of silver, work reform, immigration restrictions and gov't owner ship of railroads, telegraph, and telephone systems
- sherman antitrust act
- a law that made it illegal to create monopolies/trusts that remained free trade
- nativism
- native born americans who saw immigrants as a threat
- social gospel
- the idea that faith should be expressed through good works
- jim crow laws
- regulated social economic and political relationships between whites and african americans, were passed principally to subordinate blacks as a group to whites and enforce rules of segregation.
- gilded age
- propsperity in terms of economy, but there was corruption, poverty, and greed
- bessemer process
- new method that made steel making fast and cheap, which helped make the US industrial
- jane addams
- founded the u.s. settlement house movement and the first american woman to be awarded the nobel peace prize. believed we should support each other as a society
- thomas edison
- american inventor of over 1000 patents; invented lightbulb and established power plant that supplies electricity in NY
- john d. rockefeller
- industrialist that participated in management of company, Standard Oil
- vertical integration
- involves the gathering of many functions into a single form
- populist party
- political party that supported free coinage of silver, work reform, immigration restrictions and gov't ownership of railroads, telegraph and telephone lines