Gilded Age Vocabulary

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Practice where a single company controls every step of the process, from the raw materials to distribution.

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Vertical Integration

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Type of monopoly where a company controls a majority of one step in the production process.

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Horizontal Integration

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The time between 1870 and 1900 during which the population and economy grew quickly along with political and corporate corruption.

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Gilded Age

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The process of moving to another country to take up permanent residence.

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Immigration

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Worker organizations who tried to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions.

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Labor Unions

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The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

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Monopoly

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Policies favoring the current citizens as opposed to immigrants.

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Nativism

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Assembly line

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a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

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Ellis Island

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An immigration station that opened in 1892, located at the mouth of the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. It closed in 1954.

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Tenements

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Single family dwellings divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate the new growth of population in the United States. They were often poorly lit, cramped, and lacked plumbing and good ventilation