American Industrialization Review

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After 1880, European immigrants to the United States entered through which location for processing?

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Ellis Island

Front

During early US industrialization, workers were often housed in overcrowded and unsanitary apartment rooms. What were these housings called?

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Tenements

Front

Business leaders of the Gilded Age known for their ruthless and exploitative practices to acquire their wealth were known as ______ ______.

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robber barons

Front

The Pendleton Secret Service Act attempted to fight what system by requiring public employees to be hired based on merit?

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Spoils system

Front

What system or practice does the spoils system refer to?

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A system where government jobs were rewarded loyal supporters

Front

Which term means a business model where one company has complete control over the production or sales of a particular product, often limiting competition?

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Monopoly

Front

What allowed for cheap and fast overland transportation of raw materials to factories that fueled US industrialization?

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Trains

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Why did labor unions form in the US during the Gilded Age?

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To improve wages and working conditions

Front

What monopolistic model involves a company expanding control to different steps of a product's or service's production process?

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Vertical Integration

Front

What monopolistic model involves a company expanding control of production of a good or service in the same industry?

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Horizonal Integration