Industrialization

Question 1

Tenement

Answer 1

-Overcrowded, slum housing

Question 2

Rural

Answer 2

• Areas where not too many people live
• In “the country”
• These Areas are always shrinking

Question 3

Industrialization

Answer 3

• Making stuff with machines in big factories

- mass production

Question 4

Capitalism

Answer 4

• CAPITAL=MONEY
• Businesses competing to make money
• Laissez Faire, Market Economy

Question 5

Agrarian

Answer 5

-Related to farming

Question 6

Mechanization

Answer 6

• Producing stuff with machines

- Automation

Question 7

Industry

Answer 7

-The business of making things

Question 8

Laissez-Faire

Answer 8

• An enlightenment philosophy
• Means “Hands Off”–The government stays out of business way, and lets them direct their own course
• Capitalism, Market Economy

Question 9

-Social Darwinism

Answer 9

• Survival of the fittest
• Only the strong survive—everyone is competing against everyone else
• Example: small business can’t compete with bigger ones, so they just go out of business

Question 10

Corporation

Answer 10

• business that is owned by many people not just one person

- Example: Walmart, Sony, Ford etc.

Question 11

Monopoly/Trust

Answer 11

• One company is the only place get a certain good or service
• No competition
• Example: Standard Oil, U.S. Steel

Question 12

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 12

-1st federal law to attempt limit monoplies

Question 13

Efficiency

Answer 13

• Eliminating waste:

- Eliminated wasted time, money, energy, resources, etc.

Question 14

Productivity

Answer 14

Measure of inputs and outputs

If you produce more with the same amount of resources or less, your productivity goes up.

Question 15

Specialization

Answer 15

Getting really good producing or doing one thing

Question 16

Interdependence

Answer 16

To or more things that need each other to work

This is a result of specialization

Question 17

Immigration

Answer 17

People moving into a country

Question 18

Emigration

Answer 18

People leaving a country

The opposite of immigration

Question 19

Migration

Answer 19

Moving within a country

Question 20

Nativism

Answer 20

Showing favoritism toward non-immigrants (“natives”)

Question 21

Urbanization

Answer 21

Cities getting bigger

Question 22

Political corruption

Answer 22

Using a position of power to cheat and make money

Question 23

Suburbs

Answer 23

Communities just outside of cities-not as densely populated, but not rural

Question 24

Policy

Answer 24

A course of action

Question 25

Legislative

Answer 25

Laws or Law-making

Question 26

Anti-trust Legislation

Answer 26

Laws against monopolies/trust

Question 27

Labor

Answer 27

Work or workers

Question 28

Labor union/ Labor organization/ Organized Labor

Answer 28

Workers that get together (organize) for better wages, working conditions, and hours

Question 29

Collective bargaining

Answer 29

Workers banding together to negotiate with managers for better pay, working conditions, and hours

Question 30

Great Railroad Strike (1877)

Answer 30

Riot against railroads No unions involved Led to the formation of labor unions Local, State, and Federal Militias called in to end the violence

Question 31

Pullman strike (1897)

Answer 31

Nationwide strike by the American railway union

Question 32

Homestead strike (1892)

Answer 32

Strike of US steel workers

Question 33

Haymarket Riot (1886)

Answer 33

Chicago labor protest turned where there were bombing and a riot

Question 34

Unregulated working conditions

Answer 34

No government oversight

Question 35

Middle class

Answer 35

People who work but have a good amount of money and a relatively high standard of living

Question 36

Labor Legislation

Answer 36

Laws about working. Often about unions

Question 37

Business regulation

Answer 37

The government telling business what they can and cannot do

Question 38

Political Parties

Answer 38

Groups that try to run the government

Question 39

Interest Groups

Answer 39

A group of people that want something in common from the government--a particular thing of "of interest" to them

Question 40

Public Opinion

Answer 40

What the people think

Question 41

The media

Answer 41

The forms of mass communication

Question 42

Leisure

Answer 42

Free Time--used for enjoyment or relaxing

Question 43

Standard of living

Answer 43

How hard or easy your life is--- the easier life is, the higher your standard of living