American Industrial Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban.

Laissez Faire

• is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government interference such as regulations, privileges, tariffs, and subsidies

Trust

• that developed in the 19th century. These large companies wanted to monopolize a particular business, and with no competition they didn't have to worry about fixing prices

Robber Baron

• In social criticism, robber baron was a derogatory term applied to some wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen.

Vertical Integration

• vertical integration is an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company.

Horizontal Integration

• is a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike - either complementary or competitive.

Political Machine

• is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts.

Ellis Island

• is an island that is located in Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey, United States.

Tenements

• is in most English-speaking areas, a substandard multi-family dwelling in the urban core, usually old and occupied by the poor.

Ethnic Enclaves

• is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity.

Nativism

• is the political position of preserving status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.

Gilded Age

• in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term was coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding.

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Social Drawinism

• is a modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.

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Americanization

• This article is about the influence the United States of America has on the culture of other countries.

Populist Party

• This article is about the American political party commonly known as the 'Populists' which existed from 1891 to 1908.

Gospel of Wealth

• is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889[4] that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

Social Gospel Movement

• was a Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada.

Progressivism

• is a broad philosophy based on the Idea of Progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition.

Muckraker

• was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines.

John D Rockefeller

• was an American business magnate and philanthropist.

Andrew Carngie

• Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century

JP Morgan

• was an American financier, banker, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Cornelius Vanderbilt, also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.

Thomas Edison

• Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

Henry Ford

• Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Samuel Gompers

• Samuel Gompers was an English-born American cigar maker who became a Georgist labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.

William Tweed

• William Magear Tweed – often erroneously referred to as William Marcy Tweed, and widely known as "Boss" Tweed – was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic ...

Upton Sincliar

• Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was an American author who wrote nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres.

Jacob Riis

• Jacob August Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.

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William Traft

• William Howard Taft was an American jurist and statesman who served as both the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.

Meat Inspection

• The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is a United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

Interstate Commerce Commission

• The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

Children's Bureau 1912

• The Children's Bureau was formally created in 1912 when President William Howard Taft signed into law a bill creating the new federal government organization.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• The Sherman Antitrust Act (Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1–7) is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890.

16th Amendment

• The 16th amendment is an important amendment that allows the federal (United States) government to levy (collect) an income tax from all Americans.

17th Amendment

• The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the election of United States Senators by the people of the states.

18th Amendment

• of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession).

19th Amendment

• Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.