Urbanization and Industrialization

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Known as "Captains of Industry", they were wealthy entrepreneurs and businessmen during the Industrial Age. They made the U.S. extremely wealthy. They are referred to in a positive way as "Captains of Industry" however employees were underpaid, often children (child labor), poor, and unhealthy. Working conditions in order to make a profit were extremely poor and dangerous. Notable robber barons include Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. What are they commonly referred to as?

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Robber Barons

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Associated with oil business. His company, Standard Oil, was the nation's first trust.

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John D. Rockefeller

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The merging of companies that make similar products.

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Horizontal Integration

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Theory that suggests that it is/was natural for Superior nations to economically and politically dominate less-advanced nations. It is/was also used to validate the variance between those that were rich and extremely poor.

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Social Darwinism

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This strike, in Homestead, Pennsylvania, pitted one of the most powerful new corporations, Carnegie Steel Company, against the nation's strongest trade union. Henry Clay Frick stepped up production demands, and when the union refused to accept the new conditions, Frick began locking the workers out of the plant.

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Homestead Strike

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This was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894 and a turning point for US labor law. It pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads.

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Pullman Strike

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An alliance of trade and craft unions formed in 1886. Included skilled workers only and united workers of similar interest. It did not have very many women or African Americans and was led by Samuel Gompers.

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American Federation of Labor

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This technological advancement was made possible by government allowing Railroad companies to take acres of public land.

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Transcontinental Railroad

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This act was passed during the Guilded Age to prevent Chinese immigration into the US. It showed the anti-Asian sentiment in the USA

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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Who created the American Federation of Labor, the first form of labor unions?

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Samuel Gompers