Migration and Industry in America

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Migration

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Movement of people from one place to another for settlement

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Industrial Revolution

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Period of major industrialization in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

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Urbanization

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Growth of cities due to migration and industrialization

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Andrew Carnegie

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Led the expansion of the American steel industry

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Monopoly

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Exclusive control over a commodity or service in a particular market

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Labor Unions

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Organizations formed by workers to protect their rights and interests

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Railway extending across the United States, completed in 1869

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John D. Rockefeller

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Founder of Standard Oil Company, dominated the oil industry

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Immigration

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Act of coming to live permanently in a foreign country

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Laissez-faire

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Economic policy of minimal government interference in business