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What is a Monopoly?
When a single company achieves control of an entire market.
What was Tammany Hall?
Political Organization
What is Social Darwinism?
Human, Plant, and animal life evolved over millions of years through a process called natural selection. The species that cannot adapt die out and the species that do adapt thrive and pass on their adaptations to their descendants.
How were political machines organized?
An informant political group designed to gain and keep power because cities had grown much faster than their governments.
What were the important factors that led to America's Industrialization?
The important factors that led to America’s Industrialization were immigrants, inventions, new business organizations, inventors, strikes, and urbanization.
What is a Trust?
A trust is a legal arrangement that allows one person to manage another person's property and that person is called a trustee.
What is Gaft?
Gaining money or power illegally.
How did Social Darwinism support monopolies?
It supported them because they believed that if they built a big business it would be the “survival of the fittest”.
Why were Political Machines bad for society?
They were bad for society because the people involved with political machines were corrupt and gained money illegally.
Why were inventions and inventors necessary for industrialization?
Inventions and inventors were necessary for industrialization because they made it easier and faster for transportation and for production of materials and other things.
What is a Craft Union?
A craft union is when all the workers in a particular industry came together.
What was Nativism?
Nativism is an extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people.
According to Social Darwinism, “if your poor…..”
It was your fault for not adapting is what he would say.
How did Political Machines work?
Political machines worked by giving people in need jobs, heat, housing, food, and police protection in exchange for votes.
What did immigrants provide for the United States?
Immigrants provided a lot of things for the United States such as ideas, skilled workers, innovations, agriculture, and manufacturing.
What is Urbanization?
growth of cities and towns that people adapt too
What was a settlement house?
Movement that began as an offshoot of the Social Gospel movement. Also, community centers that were placed in poor neighborhoods.
What were the negative effects of Social Darwinism?
The negative effects of Social Darwinism were that many devout Christians found his theory offensive and they rejected it.
What kind of people went to the Political Machines for help?
People who needed jobs, housing, food, heat, and police protection were the people who went to the Political Machines.
What were Ellis Island and Angel Island?
Ellis island was a tiny island in New York harbor were immigrants passed through doctors for inspection. Angel’s island was an immigration station and so was Ellis island.
What is the Bessemer process?
A steel making process in which molten pig iron is put into the furnace to make steel.
What was the Americanization movement?
For immigrants to be able to settle into America like any other American.
How did people react to Social Darwinism?
People did not believe him and many attempted to prove his theory wrong.
What kinds of illegal activities did political bosses use to get rich?
Political bosses took bribes from contractors who were supposed to compete fairly to win contracts to build streets, sewers, and buildings. They also ran the political machine in order to get workers.
What was life like for workers in the industrial age?
Terrible and dangerous working conditions and long hours every day .