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Economic or political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Capitalism.
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.
Work at an unskilled manual occupation.
Labor.
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.
The reason something happened.
Cause.
U.S. 1870–98 greatly expanded the economy and the power of the super rich.
Gilded Age.
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.
(1890) a law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade.
Sherman Antitrust Act.
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautions about change or advancement.
Conservative.
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
Immigrant.
Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
Laissez Faire.
Seeking power in the government.
Political.
Living in companionship with others or in a community, rather than in isolation.
Social.
Wealth and resources of a country or region in terms of production and consumption of goods and services.
Economy.
Development of industry, business, and the economy.
Industrialization.
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.
Something that is produced by a cause.
Effect.
To create something new.
Invention.
1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business.
Muckrakers.
Make changes in something to improve it.
Reform.
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors.
Trust.