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Pending
Not yet decided
Industrialization
Replacement of home-based manufacturing to factory-based mass production over large part of the US at a very fast pace.
Interconnected
Many components connected at one time.
Emigrant
One who LEAVES or exits their home country to live in a new country.
Immigrant
One who enters a country to live their permanently.
Territory
A geographical location owned by or under the control by another country. For example, Hawaii was a US territory before it became a US state.
Spurring
The act of making something increase in speed or activity. Like a horse rider who spurs their horse to gallop.
Lobbied
To act in favor of a special interest, especially in order to influence political policies. For instance, Women Suffragettes lobbied politicians for the right to vote.
Labor Union
Collection of workers bonded together in order to affect change at their workplace.
Natural Resources
Items found in nature that are used in the manufacture of goods. For example, wood is transformed into furniture, ships, and paper.
Suffrage
The right to vote
Labor Strike
Action by a labor union to stop production in order to force factory owners to accept that union's demands.
Progressive Era
A term used to describe the work of several different movements with a shared goal of improving the conditions of the poor.
Tender
The offer to buy something
Balance of Power
The attempt to make two sides equal. As in the attempt in the 1800s to make representation in Congress equal between Slave States and Free States.
Secede
To break away (as in when the South seceded from the Union in 1860 to protect the institution of slavery from the Republican Party's promise to limit or get rid of slavery).
The Reconstruction Era
Period of time following the Civil War when Republicans in congress helped to rebuild the South after the Civil War and to improve the condition of newly freed slaves, including civil rights).
Sherman Antitrust Act
Law passed to make monopolies illegal
Monopoly
When one business controls an entire market. It eliminates competition; which leads to higher prices and inferior quality for consumers.
Free Market Economy
When buyers and sellers are free to compete for the best product at the best price.
Communist
System where all economic decisions are made by the government, not by individuals.
Declaration of Independence
Declared a break from England, created a new country, said our rights come from God, and that governments are only legitimate so long as they have consent of the people.
US Constiutution
Sets up the US Government, Three branches of government, Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances.
Sharecropper
Person who works on a farm not for a paycheck but for a share of the crops harvested.
Abraham Lincoln
16th President, first Republican elected president, successfully saved the country from breaking up in the Civil War, freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation,