Growth & Growing Pains - 2

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Complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition

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Monopoly

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Known for using ruthless tactics to destroy competition; don't seem to contribute to society in any positive way

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Robber Barons

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This was completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah making it possible to travel by land to California.

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Transcontinental Railroad

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In the late-1800s, producing _________ was made easier, quicker, and cheaper and this is said to have helped kick off the Second Industrial Revolution. Options: Cotton, Steel, Oil, Electricity

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Steel

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This is the theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.

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Laissez-Faire

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In this type of system, individuals are free to produce, sell, work, and live wherever they wish. Options: Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, National Market

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Capitalism

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businessmen known for their positive contributions to the modern industrial economy

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Captains of Industry

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How did the U.S. government assist the private companies building the Transcontinental RR?

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generous land grants along the railroad's right-of-way

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The new immigrants arriving between 1880-1915 were primarily from ____________.

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Southern and Eastern Europe

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Where did Asian immigrants arrive when they came to America?

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Angel Island