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Plessy vs Ferguson
If there is low demand for a product then
Unit 6 Industrialization & Progressive Era Review
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If there is low demand for a product then
Then suppliers should increase production.
Sellers should set the price higher to make it a more desirable product.
The price of the item is too low.
The inventory is too high and not enough demand.
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Plessy vs Ferguson
1896 US Supreme Court uphelds case, "separate but equal" doctrine.
1996 Congress passed Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
1875 US Supreme Court uphelds case, "equity for all" doctrine.
Racial & segregation laws were lawful for corporations with 100+ employees.
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Urbanization
Growth of cities and problems of overcrowding.
Cities ill prepared for proper waste management and disease quarantine.
Growth of tuberculosis and measles due to overcrowding tenement living.
Growth of suburban towns surrounding cities
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Advances in manufacturing led to
A reduction of employees because they were replaced with machines.
Higher wages for immigrants
Government voting for higher taxes because the "big guy" gets 10%.
Increase in monopolies and government collusion.
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Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest.
Person that becomes rich through ruthless business practices.
System of equitable distribution of goods and service.
Only appliest to the strongest animals used for breeding.
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Interstate Commerce Act
Shipping rates had to be "reasonable and just", Rates had to be published.
Shipping rates had to be "fair and balanced", for white farmers only.
Railroad tolls created to make more money for Andrew Carnegie.
Designed to not allow seperate seating based on race.
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W.E.B. Dubois
Famous African American, Havard educated 44th President of the NAACP.
Famous American and designer of the Marvel Spider Man web slinger.
Famous African American psychologist, and conservationalist.
Famous Havard educated African American sociologist, writer and activist.
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Booker T. Washington
Founded the Tuskee Institute and Black School in Alabama training teachers.
Founded the American school for the blind and mute.
US Senator and former Newark, NJ Mayor
Founded the NAACP and Scientology supporter.
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Child Labor *multiple answers
Children often worked 14-18 hour days in unsafe working conditions.
Children in factories were small, quick and could get into small places.
Was preferred by businesses because they could pay them less.
All children attended school for 8 hours a day and worked part time.
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2nd Industrial Revolution
Growth of new industries in steel, railroads, telecommunications and coal.
Grown of new industries in solar power, windmill and hydroelectric power.
Growth of zero emmissions and clean fuel industries.
Growth of new industries in steel, chemicals, electricity and petroleum.
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Workers unionized because
The wanted better working conditions.
The wanted to prevent immigrants from taking their jobs.
They wanted a voice in the US Senate.
They wanted better living quarters.
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Upton Sinclair's novel
The Jungle
Exposed the world to poachers killing elephants for their ivory tusks.
Tells the love story between Tarzan and Jane.
Exposed the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry.
Exposed cannibalism in the poverty ridden tenements.
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Legislation by Congress to break up the Sherwin Williams paint monopoly.
Making attempts to monopolize any trade/commerce illegal in USA.
Legislation by Congress to keep politions from accepting private donations.
Impeach government staff that have classified documents in their garage.
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Statue of Liberty was designed by
Nepolean Bonaparte
Claude Monet
Gustav Eiffel
Charles de Gaulle
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Robber Barons
Group of people known to rob banks and giving the money away to the poor.
The belief that governmanent is both harmful and unnecessary.
Rich person that is ruthless and unscrupulous business practices.
A person who is desperate and robs others so to support their families.
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Any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing.
Fuddruckers
Muckrakers
Mudruckers
Mudrakers
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Economic and political system in which the production operate under public political ownership aka common ownership
Anarchism
Socialism
Communism
Capitalism
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John D. Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
Famous figure skater that built the Rockefeller Ice Skating Rink in NYC.
Founder of the Standard Electric Company
Founder of the American Standard Steel Company
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Theodore Roosevelt
He was known as "trust buster" for breaking up industrial combinations.
He was the 27th US President and the youngest at 43 years old.
Founded the Tuskee Institute and Black School in Alabama.
He was the "greatest humanitarian" for saving 146 people in capitol riots.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire *multiple answers
Killed mostly men ages 16 to 23.
Had motor oil blocking the door.
Elevators were narrow so workers can be checked for stolen fabric.
Killed 145 workers most burned to death other jumped out of the building.
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18th Admendment
US admendment that extended the right to vote to women.
US law that allowed American the right to have arms.
US law in 1919 prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
US admendment that extened the right to vote to blacks.
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Child Labor
Children went to work to help support their family.
Children went to work because it was considered as vocational education.
Children went to work to play with other children.
Children went to work because they had mean teachers.
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Economic change during Industrial Revolution
Increase in labor in the suburban areas outside of the city.
Increased use of agriculture and less machinery.
New inventions and the development of factories.
Reduced dependency on fossil fuels
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Socialism
Equitable distribution of wealth and material resources among all people.
Government owns everything for the people.
Economic system where capital goods are privately owned businesses.
Political & economic idea based on communal ownership & absence of class
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Progressive Era
Known as a period of banking reform and taxation without representation.
Period of social, industrial and monetary reform.
Period of widespread social activism and political reform 1890s-1920s.
Known as the era of the soup as Progessive canned soup built factories.
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Communism
System when capital goods are owned by private individuals or businesses.
Belief centered on government is both harmful and unnecessary.
Political & economic ideology based communal ownership & absence of class.
A period of widespread social activism and political reform.
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Andrew Carnegie *more than 1 answer
Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1859
Philanthropist
Worked in a cotton factory as a child
Founded the Pittsburgh Steelers which did not make it to Super Bowl 57.
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Imperialism
When a nation over powers another using economic, political, or military.
The practice of stripping natural resources and leaving none for natives.
When a nation is ruled by a monarchy.
A term used by countries when they are overthrown by an outside government.
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Cottage Industry
Custom home builders of the 1800s.
Production system when manufacturers provide materials for home production.
Poorly lit, cluttered, unsafe work places where workers put in long hours
Cheese industry specializing in making cottage cheese.
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The Progressive Movement
Eliminated prohibition laws & manufacturing and selling alcohol was allowed
Reduced government spending for social programs.
Selling alcohol was allowed only if customers paid sales tax to government.
Increased governement regulation of business.
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Factory fire killing 145 workers in New York City
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Triangle Suit Factory Fire
Willie Wonka Candy Factory in Itasca, Illinois
Chocolate factory fire at Hershey, Pennsylvania
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Urbanization
The growth of cities and problems of overcrowding.
Term to identify large business comes to a new market to gain marketshare.
Nickname for country singer Keith Urban's cult followers called Urbeenies.
Growth of multiuse communities where residents can sleep, play and work.
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Guilded Age
Era of wide spread social activism and political reform.
Era that spanned the end of the Civil War to the early 20th century.
Era that solved poverty caused by urbanization and factories.
Era of industrial revolution 1870-1914 that saw the growth of steel.
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2nd Industrial Revolution
A time that created much poverty, crime and depression.
A label given by historians for years from 1870-1914
Time of growth of industries, such as coal, iron, railroads and textiles
Time of expansion of paper, electricity, agriculture and chemicals
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Bessemer Process
A revolutionary means of removing impurities from pig iron by an air blast.
A proccessed used to iron creases in womens dresses.
The process used by famous singer Andrea Bocelli's famous song Besame Mucho
A processed used to identify counterfeit money by the federal reserve.
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Economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Capitalism
Communism
Decapitatism
Corporalism
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Invention of the telephone helped
So teenagers could prank call each other during sleepovers.
Helped make companies like Duke Energy and Con Edison rich.
Make communication faster and easier to purchase and sell goods.
Families keep in touch.
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19th Admendment
Admendment that extended the right to vote to confederates.
Admendment 1920 to extend the right to vote to women.
Admendment in 1950 for the right to bear Arms.
Proposed amendment is part of constitution if ratified by 3/4th of states.
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Thomas Edison
Invented the light bulb using carbonized cardboard
Invented the LED light bulb.
Marketing genius and invented the wireless telephone.
Was from Orlando, Florida and related to Walt Disney.
