Industrialization Vocabulary

practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than to people based on their qualifications

• spoils system

• civil service

government departments and their non-elected employees; government employees given jobs based on merit

• spoils system

• civil service

Taxes on imported goods making the price high enough to protect domestic goods from foreign competition

• protective tariff

• mass production

• trust

• sweatshop

a theory advocating minimal government interference in the economy

• laissez-faire

• democracy

• communism

• Reaganomics

production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.

• mass production

• factory

• monopoly

• mass culture

positive idea that industrial leaders worked hard and deserved their wealth

• Captain of Industry

• Robber Baron

negative idea that industrial leaders stole from their workers by giving them low wages and were greedy.

• Robber Baron

• Captain of Industry

system of consolidating firms involved in all steps of a product’s manufacture

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

system of consolidating many firms in the same business

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

exclusive control by one company over an entire industry

• monopoly

• trust