Industrialization
Industrialization definition
what is the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale?
definition of urbanization
what is the process of making an area more urban?
definition of labor exploitation
what is an unjust social relationship where there is an inequality of power or an unequal exchange of value between workers and their employers?
what was a Captain of Industry
what is a business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way?
definition of Social Darwinism
what is a theory that applies the concept of natural selection and “survival of the fittest” from Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to human societies ?
Important inventions in this time period
what are railroads, electricity, and internal combustion engines?
what got less as urbanization spread
what are rural towns?
what helped stop/meditate labor exploitation
what are unions?
what was the common factor among the Captains of Industry
what is a large amount of money and a business owner?
what is the main idea of Social Darwinism
what is the survival of the fittest?
Horizontal and Vertical Integration def
what is Horizontal integration is an expansion strategy that involves the acquisition of another company in the same business line and Vertical integration is when a company takes ownership of suppliers, distributors, or retail locations to obtain greater control of its supply chain?
why was urbanization needed
what is the increasing population?
this is the name of the act of stopping unions from forming
what is union busting?
who was the Scottish American who dominated the steel industry
who is Andrew Carnegie?
what was Social Darwinism used to justify
what is the difference between the rich and the poor?
the Sherman Antitrust Act stop
what is Monopolies?
what was limited by the Chinese Exclusion Act
what is the number of Asian immigrants?
the name given to the act of employing children
what is child labor?
who was the railroad tycoon who shut down all opponent's trains from entering New York
who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
what was the impact on Labbor relations?
what is the reason for lower wages/ resistance to labor unions?
why was industrialization welcomed in America
what is because it showed a path for people to climb the financial ladders?
what section of laws/acts were heavily upgraded as an effect of Urbanization
what are housing codes and sanitation laws/acts?
who are the Muckrakers
what is They are a group of American journalists that provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States?
who was the founder of Standard oil
who is John D. Rockefeller?
what was one of the main focuses on self
what is self-reliance?