1. Industrialization, and Immigration

3. Rise of Big Business

4. Labor v. Management

5. Immigration

6. Urbanization

7. Mystery

8. Rise of Big Business
Labor v. Management
Immigration
Urbanization
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9. A company characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide.
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10. What is a Monopoly?
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11. Negative nickname given to millionaires of the Industrial Revolution because of their ruthless business practices and inhumane treatment of workers
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12. What are “Robber Barons”?
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13. An economic and social philosophy, holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest.
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14. What is Social Darwinism?
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15. The process in which one person or company buys out its suppliers in order to control all aspects of production.
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16. What is Vertical Integration?
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17. The author and book that describes how modern capitalism only works through the use of the “invisible hand” of competition, published in 1776.
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18. What is A Wealth of Nations, written by Adam Smith?
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19. Negotiation between an employer and trade union.
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20. What is collective bargaining?
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21. Replacement worker hired by management to replace striking workers.
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22. What are Scabs?
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23. Federal government reaction to early labor union strikes, such as the Great Railway Strike, Homestead Strike, and the Pullman Strike.
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24. What is supporting Big Business and breaking up the strikes?
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25. An alliance of trade and craft unions formed in 1886 and headed by Samuel Gompers and used collective bargaining to achieve their goals.
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26. What is the American Federation of Labor?
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27. A law, enacted in 1890, that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade.
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28. What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
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29. A law, enacted in 1882, that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the United States.
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30. What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
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31. A minority group’s adoption of the beliefs and way of life of the dominate culture.
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32. What is assimilation?
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33. Favoritism to native born Americans over immigrants
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34. What is nativism?
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35. The two main immigrant stations immigrants had to be inspected at before being admitted to the United States.
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36. What is Angel Island and Ellis Island?
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37. A name given to the American Party, formed in the 1850s to curtail the political influence of immigrants.
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38. What is the Know Nothing Party?
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39. This new technology produced, as a result of rapid industrialization, helped improve transportation in major cities.
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40. What are subways, trains, and streetcars?
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41. Crowded multi-family buildings that existed in cities.
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42. What is a tenement?
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43. The city that experienced the largest increase in population from 1860-1900.
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44. What is New York City?
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45. A settlement house, created by Jane Addams, providing assistance to residence – particularly immigrants – in a slum neighborhood.
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46. What is Hull House?
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47. Name given to corrupt city politicians, who exploited immigrants and the poor, for votes.
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48. What are political machines?
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49. Someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it.
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50. What is an entrepreneur?
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51. Provided a steady demand for cheap labor for factory owners
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52. Who are immigrants?
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53. A policy in which government does not interfere in the economic system.
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54. What is Laissez-faire?
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55. This person is considered the “poster boy” of the American Industrial Revolution
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56. Who is John D. Rockefeller?
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57. The industry that gave the United States time zones.
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58. What are the Railroads?
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59. Rise of Big Business

60. Final Jeopardy!
An economic system based on private ownership of capital (money or property)

61. Final Jeopardy!
What is Capitalism?