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Railroads contribute to this happening in the U.S. after
1870 on a large scale
Westward Expansion
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Expansion of Railroads in the 1860s caused
Big Business to dominate the
economy
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A way to create a monopoly by buying out all
your competitors
Horizontal Integration
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A way to create a monopoly by buying not only competitors
but buying out natural resources, production, and
distribution
Vertical Consolidation
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A business arrangement where there is one owner that
sets prices, wages and controls the industry
Monopoly
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Railroad, completed in 1869, that run from the Atlantic
Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Transcontinental Railroad
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Main labor source on the western leg of the
Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese Labor
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Used Horizontal and Vertical integration to form
a monopoly on Oil
John D. Rockefeller
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Edison invention that allowed people to work at night and see in the dark
Electric Light Bulb
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Invention of Edison’s that allowed people to enjoy
themselves at the Movies
Motion Pictures
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Edison invention that allowed people to listen to
records and recorded sound
Phonograph
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Immigration station located in New York Harbor; entrance
point for immigrants entering on the East coast of U.S.
Ellis Island
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New Immigration after the Civil War; Immigrants did not speak
English and were Jewish or Catholics and come from
Southern & Eastern Europe
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Concept used to explain the overpopulation of cities due to
increased Immigration
Urbanization
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First organized and National labor union in the
United States
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Strategy used by Unions to stop work by workers refusing to work until demands are met
Strike
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Sioux leader that fought U.S. soldiers; led his people in exile in Canada, and finally agreed to settle on a reservation; later shot to death by government
agents
Sitting Bull
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Massacre of Sioux in South Dakota where 300 women, children, and men killed by
U.S. Soldiers
Wounded Knee
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Conflict that occurred when an owner of a cart company cut workers wages but did not
lower their rent
1894 Pullman Strike
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Political reform movement where people supported increased government
regulation of business & industry
Progressive Era
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Novel that revealed the unsanitary conditions in the
Chicago meat packing industry
The Jungle
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Law made by Congress to force meat packers to make sure their food was safe to
consume; Influenced by The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
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Female progressive that opened a settlement house in Chicago to help the inner city
poor
Jane Addams
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Settlement house that provided immigrants learn home
economics, basic medical care, English, legal rights;
established by Jane Addams
Hull House
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Concept that explains segregation laws that required
separate public and private facilities for African Americans
Jim Crow
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Court case in 1896 that ruled that segregation in public and private facilities is acceptable
Plessy v. Ferguson
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Group formed to promote full social and economic equality
for African Americans
NAACP
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First African American to graduate from Harvard
University and founder of the NAACP
WEB Dubois
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Journalist that exposed the corrupt business practices of
Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell
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Title of Ida Tarbell’s novel criticizing the unfair practices used by John D. Rockefeller
History of Standard Oil
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Reform journalists that investigated and exposed
political corruption, child labor, slum conditions, social issues
Muckrakers
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A form of direct control of government by state citizens by forcing a public vote on an issue on the ballot bypassing
state legislatures
Initiative
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A process where state legislators place a proposal
for a law on the ballot to allow citizens to vote the law into
effect
Referendum
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The power of state citizens to remove public officials from
office before their term expires
Recall
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Initiative, referendum, recall increase ordinary citizens
direct control of government which is also known as
Direct Democracy
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The 17th Amendment of the United States Constitution
requires this
Direct Election of Senators
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The direct election of senators meant that who would elect
the 2 senators from each state
Voters (Citizens of the State)
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The 17th Amendment increased ordinary citizens direct control of government
which is also known as
Direct Democracy
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Before the 17th Amendment, this is who selected U.S.
Senators
State Legislatures
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Progressive era movement that reserved millions of acres
of wilderness lands, particularly in western states
Conservation Movement
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This President’s efforts led to the establishment of a national
park system that included Yosemite & Yellowstone
Theodore Roosevelt
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American feelings caused by Chinese immigrants accepting low wages for jobs whites had held causes wages to go down
Anti-Asian sentiment
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