Industrialization Vocabulary

"A term originally used to describe a business leader whose means of making a personal fortune contributes positively to the community or nation in some way."

• Robber Baron

• Captain of Industry

• Monopolist

• Captain of America

This is a term for when one company controls the majority of an industry

• Monopoly
• Merger
• Corporation
• Company

Apartments in cities that were overcrowded and rundown 

• Tenements
• Townhomes 
• Sidements 
• Vacaments 

The most important invention/improvement responsible for the growth of American industry after the Civil War

• factories

• railroads

• corporations

• telephone

Philanthropy (CHOOSE 2)

• Using wealth to expand business

• Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller Plaza, Vanderbilt University

• A belief that government should provide services to those who are poor

• A belief that a individual should use their wealth to give back to communities or a charity

Subsidies

Tariffs

Open Immigration

Laizess Faire

Using military to stop striking workers

• Factors of government support of business

• Anti-trust laws regulating business

• Factors that lead to competition

• Anti-trust laws regulating the government

Term where the strongest, most clever, most efficient business will survive and the weak businesses will die out. 

• Social Darwinism
• Sherman AntiTrust
• Economies of Scale
• Holding companies

"Nativist"

• Supported immigrants because of shortages of labor

• Opposed to immigrants because of social and economic factors

Assimilation

• Mixing of religion
• When immigrants become more like the country they have entered

Group of works who collective bargain to get higher pay, more rights and better working conditions

• Soviet Union
• Labor Union
• Commune 
• Trade Federation