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Standard of living
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*How hard or easy your life is- the easier life is, the higher your standard of living
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Leisure
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*Free time– used for enjoyment or relaxing
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The Media
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- The forms of mass communication
- Newspapers
- TV
- Magazines
- Radio
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Public Opinion
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*What the people think
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Interest Groups
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- A group of people who want something in common from the government– a particular thing is ¨of interest¨ to them.
- Ex.: National Association of Advancement for Colored People, National Education Association, AAA, and Corn Grovers.
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Political Parties
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- Groups that try to run the government.
- Republicans
- Democrats
- Green Party
- Libertarian Party
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Business Regulation
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- The government telling businesses what they can and cannot do.
- Examples: Minimum wage, Meat Inspection Act
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Labor Legislation
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- Laws about work. Often about unions.
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Middle Class
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*People who work but have a good amount of money and a relatively high standard of living
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Unregulated Working Conditions
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- Unregulated= no government oversight
- Working conditions= what the enviroment is like at your work-Mostly related to safety
- Unregulated Working conditions means the government does not tell businesses what the enviroment at work must be like
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Haymarket Riot (1886)
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*Chicago labor protest turned where there was a bombing and a riot
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Homestead Strike (1892)
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- Strike of US steel workers
- There was gunfight between workers and strikebreakers
- Led to a decline in union membership
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Pullman Strike (1894)
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- Nationwide strike by the American Railway Union
- Striking against the Pullman Company
- Lots of rioting
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Great Railroad Strike
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- Riots against railroads
- No unions involved
- Led to the formation of Labor Unions
- Local, State and Federal Militias called in to end the violence
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Collective Bargaining
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- Workers banding together to negotiate with managers for better pay, working conditions, and hours.
- What labor unions do
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Labor Union/ Labor Organization
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- Workers get together (organize) for better wages, working conditions, and hours
- Examples: United Autoworkers, Ohio Education Association
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Labor
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- Work or workers
* Examples: coal miners, teachers, steel workers, and autoworkers
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Antitrust Legislation
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*Laws against monopolies/trust
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Legislation
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- Laws or Lawmaking
* Examples: The Affordable Healthcare Act, Sherman Antitrust Act
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Policy
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- A course of action
- It answers the question: ¨How are we going to do things?¨”
- Example: ¨Late to class, no hall pass¨
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Suburbs
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*Communities just outside of cities- not as densely populated, but not rural
Ex.: Pickerington, Westerville, Dublin
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Political Corruption
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*Using a position of power to cheat and make money
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Urbanization
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- Cities getting bigger
* Urban=city
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Nativism
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- Showing favoritism toward non-immigrants (¨Natives¨)
- Has nothing to do with American Indians!
- Example: reefusing to hire immigrants
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Migration
*Moving within a country
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Emigration
* People leaving a country
| * The opposite of immigration
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Immigration
* People moving into a country
| * Example: a person moves here from Italy or Mexico
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Interdependence
* Two or more things that need each other to work.
* Example: -steel companies need railroads to ship their steel around the country
- Railroads need steel to make their tracks, trains, bridges, etc. THEY NEED EACH OTHER
*This is a result of specialization
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Specialization
* Getting really good at producing or doing one thing.
| * Examples: a kicker on a football team; a line worker who just bolts on the front left tire of a car
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Productivity
* Measure of inputs vs outputs
* If you produce more with the same amount of resources or less, your productivity goes UP
* Example: today 10 workers produce 10 cars; tomorrow, the same 10 workers produce 15 cars. Productivity went up.
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Efficiency
* Eliminating waste: -Eliminating wasted time, money, energy, resources, etc.
* Example: taking the shortest route to get somewhere
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Sherman Antitrust Act
*1st Federal law to attempt to limit monopolies
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Monopoly/Trust
* One company is the only place you can get a certain good or service
- NO Competition
* Example: Standard Oil, U.S. steel
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Corporation
* business that is owned by many people not just one person
| * Example: Walmart, Sony, Ford, etc.
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Social Darwinism
* Survival of the fittest
* ONly the strong survive- everyone is competing against everyone else
* Example: small businesses can't compete with bigger ones, so they just go out of business
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Laissez-Faire
* An Enlightenment philosophy
* Means ¨Ḧands off¨¨-- the government stays out of businesses way, and lets them direct their own course
* Capitalism, Market Economy
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Industry
*The business of making things
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Mechanization
* Producing stuff with machines
| * Automation
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Agrarian
*Related to farming
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Capitalism
* Capital= Money
* Business competing to make money
* Laissez- Faire, Market Economy
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Industrialization
* Making stuff with machines in big factories
| * Mass production
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Rural
* Areas where not many people live
* In ¨the country¨
* These areas are always shrinking
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Tenement
*overcrowded, slum housing
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Commerce
*to buy and sell things
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