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Economic or political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
Capitalism
Work at an unskilled manual occupation.
Labor
The exclusive possession or control of supply or trade in a service or good
Monopoly
Favoring or promoting change, modernization, and transformation
Progressive
The right to vote in political elections.
Suffrage
The reason something happened
Cause
Wealth and resources of a country or region in terms of production and consumption of goods and services
Economy
The exclusive right to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention.
Patent
Industrialists gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages.
Robber Barons
An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages.
Unions
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautions about change or advancement
Conservative
U.S. 1870–98 greatly expanding economy and the power of the super rich.
Gilded Age
Seeking power in the government.
Political
(1890) a law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade
Sherman Antitrust Act
Living in companionship with others or in a community, rather than in isolation
Social
An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy
Ellis Island
Development of industry, business, and the economy.
Industrialization
1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business.
Muckrakers
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors
Trust
Make changes in something to improve it.
Reform
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
Immigrant
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
Labor Union
Giving favors or giving contracts in return for political support
Patronage
Process of making an area more city-like; the growth of cities and towns from villages.
Urbanization
Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
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