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Unit 2 Vocab Menu

Published on Jun 24, 2019

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Unit 2 Vocab Menu

 by: Vishwaraja Ravichandran #19
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Robber Baron

 a businessman that uses ruthless tactics to gain his wealth and success

19th Amendment

 granted women's their right to vote
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VerTical integration

 when a company has full control over a product from the beginning to the end
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horizontal integration

 when a company takes over its competitors by buying them out leading to a monopoly
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Political machine

 a group created to keep power. Provided services to immigrants for votes

17th Amendment

 provides for direct election by the people rather than a slate legislature
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Ellis Island

 A island in new york harbor that served as a processing center for immigrants

Tenements

 multi-family apartments that were usually dark and crowded

Social Gospel Movement

1a time when religius reformers wanted to improve conditions in the cities using biblical ideals
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laissez-faire

1a handsoff government that didn't interfere with business
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Ethnic enclaves

 immigrant clusters where they preserved their own culture and language
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nativism

 preferring native-born people with the desire to limit immigration
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social darwinism

 applying survival of the fittest to society
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children's bureau 1912

1created to invesigate and report on welfare of children
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Settlement house

 a charitable service that provided housing, daycare, education, and healthcare for the urban poor
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18th amendment

 prohibited the sale of alcohol
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populist party

 made to increase the political power of farmers and to work for legislation for farmers' interests

gospel of wealth

 the idea that rich should help and give to the poor
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Americanization

 immigrants were taught american culture and english language
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Progressivism

 a reform movement as a response to problems from industrialization
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Muckraker

 a person that exposes social issues through books and other means
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Meat inspection Act

 required inspection of meat in 1906 setting new standards for cleanliness in meat plants
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Interstate Commerce commission

 were given the power to enforce regulation of railroad rates

labor union

 an association of workers formed to protect their rights and interests
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sherman anti-trust act

 the first measure passed by us congress to prohibit trusts in 1890
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16th amendment

1allowed congress to charge an income tax without regard to state

Andrew Carnegie

1a business man who wrote the gospel of wealth

Thomas Edison

 invented the first light bulb
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John D Rockefeller

 a robber baron who owned standard oil controlling a lot majority of the oil industry
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samuel gompers

 1st leader of the AFL, the largest labor union during its time

william taft

 26TH US PRESIDENT WHO WAS KNOWN FOR BUSTING MORE TRUSTS THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT

henry Ford

 perfect the assembly line and invented the first car
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jacob riis

 a muckraker who exposed tenement life through his book "how the other half live"
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William tweed

 A political boss in NY who ran Tammany Hall
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dwight l moody

 opened the first YMCA in chicago
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jane Addams

 Opened the first settlement house known as Hull house

upton sinclair

 a muckraker that exposed the meat industry through his book "Jungle"

theodore roosevelt

 the first president concerned with conserving the government
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