| A | B |
|---|
| Civil Service Reform | government position is earned not given (no more buddy buddy) |
| Political Machine | to win loyalty of immigrants, promising and making deals for votes |
| Big Business | $$$, Monopolies, Powerful Empires |
| Labor Unions | Groups that demand better pay, hours, safe working conditions etc. |
| Corporations | group ownership of a business |
| Industrialists | person who owns an industry |
| Nativism | picking Native Born Americans over immigrants |
| Philanthropists | generous donation, care for others, Andrew Carnagie |
| Laissez-Faire | government hands off industries |
| Monopolies | complete control of a product or service |
| Trusts | companies run by trustees or board members |
| Corruption | Mostly government, stealing money |
| Immigrants | Push Pull Factors |
| Entrepreneurship | build a business to make $ |
| Farm Issues | debt, insects, weather, low prices |
| Free Enterprise | freedom to run a business for $ |
| Industrialization | development of industries across a wide area |
| Urbanization | population increase in cities |
| Spoils System | jobs given to friends regardless of experience |
| Settlement Houses | reform institutions for poor urban areas |
| Tenements | multiple families living together, horrible living areas for immigrants, sweatshops |
| Political Bosses | political party leader and controls votes |
| Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 | Chinese Immigrants not allowed in, taking to many jobs away (west coast) |
| Upton Sinclair "The Jungle" | book written to show harsh conditions of immigrants lives |
| Robber Barons | Captains of Industry, unfair power to big businesses |
| Andrew Carnegie | Steel industrialists, Philanthropist, donated $ library's and colleges |
| Social Gospel | combination of church and people of good works |
| Gilded Age | Looks great from the outside but inside America its not so great (mark twain) |
| Sherman Antitrust Acts | government regulated trade, to eliminate monopolies |
| Interstate Commerce Act | ICC, monitor Railroad shipping rates |
| Labor Unions | laborers who want protected rights and interests |
| Assimilation | to adopt or convert to whites |
| Homestead Act | offered land to anyone willing to live there for 5 years, helped people move west |
