The Guilded Age & the Rise of Urban America

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Vertical Integration

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A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products.

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Horizontal Integration

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A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors.

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Social Darwinism

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Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top

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Labor Union

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An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

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Ellis Island

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Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

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Tenements

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Narrow, low-rise apartment buildings common in cities during the Gilded Age

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During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the U.S. found work as ?

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Factory workers

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Who owned Standard Oil and is considered the wealthiest American of all time?

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John D. Rockefeller

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What did Thomas Edison invent?

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Light bulb

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Which innovation allowed for cities to grow upward with the creation of Skyscrapers?

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Bessemer Process