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| economies of scale | says as the number of items produced increases, the cost decreases |
| Ellis Island | where immigrants entered the United States - they were checked over BEFORE being allowed in the country |
| factory town | 1 or 2 factories provide jobs for most of the people in the town - the town literally revolves around the factory |
| Ford Motor Company | 1st automobile company in the U.S. - 1st "mass producer" of cars |
| Gilded Age (1877-1900) | time of BIG BUSINESS - an age of inventions |
| "Golden Spike" | the last spike - piece of metal - which linked the Transcontinental Railroad together |
| graft | using your position to get anything you can |
| Granger Cases | Supreme Court Cases - dealt with regulating/controlling RailRoads vs Midwest farmers |
| Great Chicago Fire of 1871 | showed how dangerous inner city living had become - safety hazards - 250 people died/ 100,000 homeless |
| Haymarket Riots of 1896 | farming company in Chicago - workers wanted an 8 hr day, scabs hired (non-union/other people) hired to take the place of strikers, police called to end the strike |
| Homestead Strike of 1892 | steel strike - wages cut, shootouts, police called - owner, Andrew Carnegie: stayed above it - hands off |
| horizontal consolidation | control of all of the SAME type of business/product (raw iron, or farms producing cotton) |
| ICC | it regulated trade & business - Interstate Commerce Commission |
| incandescent light bulb | the 1st light bulb - difficult to pull off - so they would last a long time |
| Industrial Revolution | a time of factories, manufacturing, jobs & great advances in society |
| In RE Debs | Supreme Court Case: union against the Railroads - went on strike over 30% wage reduction |
| Industrial Workers of the World | a union for ALL workers - the exact job you do doesn't matter |
| industrialization | when factories and companies are built in towns - jobs are created, people move to the cities for the jobs, housing- is tight/apartments/tenements |
| InterState Commerce Act of 1887 | a Federal Law which regulated/controlled business & trade |
| IWW | an abbreviation for Industrial Workers of the World |
| Knights of Labor | early labor union - farmers, factory workers: wanted 8 hr day, equal pay, NO child labor |
| Lowell/Waltham System | everything a company needed to produce a product/item was located in 1 place /factory |
| merger | 2 or more companies/stores becoming JUST 1 company |
| Model T | the first car - made in late 1800s, by 1910 10,000 were produced - allowed people to live outside of cities, move to the suburbs |
| monopoly | 1 company controls all of 1 type of product - they have the market - they be the ONLY producer of the item |
| Morse Code | a series of short & long bursts - used to form an alphabet - allowed people to transmit msgs over distance |
| Mugwumps | Democrats who voted for Republican President Grover Cleveland |
| Munn v. Illinois | Supreme Court Case: states can regulate trade within their state borders |
| partnership | 2 or more people run/own a company - share the profits |
| passage | money people paid to travel to the United States aboard a ship |
