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Natives
Natives in the United States
Aboriginal peoples in Canada - indigenous people of Canada, including First Métis and Inuit
Assimilation, a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
Homestead Act The Homestead Act was one of several United States Federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acres (1/4 section) of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies. The new law required three steps: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. Government, including freed slaves, could file an application and improvements to a local land office.
Morrill Act For fifteen years prior to the first introduction of the bill in 1857, there was a political movement calling for the creation of agriculture colleges. The movement was led by Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner of Illinois College. On February 8, 1853, the Illinois legislature adopted a resolution, drafted by Turner, calling for the Illinois congressional delegation to work to enact a land-grant bill to fund a system of industrial colleges, one in each state. Senator Lyman Trumbull Illinois believed it was advisable that the bill should be introduced by an eastern congressman, and two months later Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont introduced his bill.
demolished in 1906
Populism1906ethe This should be a collection of farmers and small businessmen who joined together to take on the railroads and corruption.
Populism defined either and wishes".
Gold Standard The gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold. Three distinct kinds of gold standard can be identified. The gold specie standard is a system in which the monetary unit is associated with circulating gold coins, or with the unit of value defined in terms of one particular circulating gold coin in conjunction with subsidiary coinage made from a lesser valuable metal
Industrialization (American English), is the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernisation process, where social change and economic development are closely related with technological innovation, particularly with the development of large-scale energy and metallurgy production. It is the extensive organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.
Monopoly In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos / μονος (alone or single) + polein / πωλειν (to sell)) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.[clarification needed Monopolies are thus characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods.The verb "monopolize" refers to the process by which a firm gains persistently greater market share than what is expected under perfect competition.
A monopoly must be distinguished from monopsony, in which there is only one buyer of a product or service ; a monopoly may also have monopsony control of a sector of a market. Likewise, a monopoly should be distinguished from a cartel(a form of oligopoly), in which several providers act together to coordinate services, prices or sale of goods. Monopolies can form naturally or through vertical or horizontal mergers. A monopoly is said to be coercive when the monopoly firm actively prohibits competitors from entering the field.
26 Stat requiresrequires the United
Trust a business entity formed to create a monopoly or fix prices
American Federation of Labor The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1886 by Samuel Gompers as a reorganization of its predecessor, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. Gompers became president of the AFL in 1886 and was reelected every year except one until his death on December 13, 1924.
Industrial Workers of the World The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. Today it is actively organizing and numbers about 2,000 members worldwide, of whom fewer than half (approximately 900) are in good standing (that is, have paid their dues for the prior two months). IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.
Social Darwinism Social Darwinism is a pejorative term used in criticism of ideologies or ideas concerning their exploitation of concepts in biology and social sciences to artificially create political change that reduces the fertility of certain individuals, races, and subcultures having certain "undesired" qualities. It has very rarely been used as a self description.
its opponents.
The term draws upon the common use of the term Darwinism, which has been used to describe a range of evolutionary views, but in the late 19th century was applied more specifically to natural selection as first advanced by Charles Darwin to explain speciation in populations of organisms. The process includes competition between individuals for limited resources, popularly known as "survival of the fittest", a term coined by anthropologist Herbert Spencer
Ellis Island at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, is the location of what was from January 1, 1892, until November 12, 1954 the facility that replaced the state-run Castle Garden Immigration Depot (1855–1890) in Manhattan. It is owned by the Federal government and is now part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, under the jurisdiction of the US National Park Service. Ellis Island was also the subject of a border dispute between the states of New York and New Jersey (see below). It is situated predominantly in Jersey City, New Jersey, although a small portion of its territory falls within neighboring New York City.[
Immigration is the introduction of new people into a habitat or population. It is a biological concept and is important in population ecology, differentiated from emigration and migration.
Urbanization Urbanization (also spelled "urbanisation") is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.
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Tenement a large building with few windows, all made out of wood. With small rooms they were very dangerous with fires involved.
Mass transit Public transport (also public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) comprises passenger transportation services which are available for use by the general public, as opposed to modes for private use such as automobiles or vehicles for hire.
Rural Free Delivery carriers are United States Postal Service employees who deliver mail in what are traditionally considered rural areas of the United States. Before Rural Free Delivery, rural citizens of the US had to go to the post office in the cities to get their mail. This changed with the Rural Free Delivery in
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums and literary burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business," vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades
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Progressive Movement Progressivism is a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform. Progressivism is often viewed in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies. The Progressive Movement began in cities with settlement workers and reformers who were interested in helping those facing harsh conditions at home and at work. The reformers spoke out about the need for laws regulating tenement housing and child labor. They also called for better working condition for women
Prohibition often referred to simply as prohibition, is a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol. Typically, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition of alcohol was enforced. Use of the term as applicable to a historical period is typically applied to countries of European culture. In some countries of the Muslim world, consumption of alcoholic beverages is forbidden according to Islamic Law — though the strictness by which this prohibition was and is enforced varies considerably between various Islamic countries and various periods in their history. In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from Protestant wariness of alcohol The first half of the 20th century saw periods of prohibition of alcoholic beverages in several countries
NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP and pronounced N-double-A-C-P, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". Its name, retained in accord with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term colored people.
Conservation of cultural heritage for the future. Conservation activities include examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care. All of this work is supported by research and education.
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Industrial Revolution/ United States
William McKinley was the 25th President. . He was the last president to serve in the 19th century and the first to serve in the 20th. . McKinley launched the Spanish-American War, widely popular due to the efforts of the yellow press, using the pretext of Spanish atrocities in Cuba
.
William Jennings Bryan was a nominee for
President in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st Secretary of STate under President Wilson. He was a critic of banks and railroads, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, an opponent of Darwinism., Because he beleived in the goodness and rightness of the common people, he was called "The Great Commoner."
Edwin Drake . He grew up on family farms around New York State before leaving home at the age of 19. He spent the early parts of his life working the railways around New Haven,
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph the motion picture camera the and a long-lasting, practical electric light
bulb. His nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park".
Christopher Sholes was an American
inventor
who invented the first typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.
Alexander Graham Bell was a scientist, inventor, and engineer who is credited with inventing the first telephone. Bell's mother and wife were deaf.. His research on hearing and speech led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually ended up with Bell being awarded the first
patent for the telephone in 1876.
George Pullman was an American inventor and industrialist. He is known as the inventor of the Pullman Sleeping Car and for violently suppressing striking workers.
William Vanderbilt was an American businessman and a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family
Cornelius Vanderbilt was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads.
Jay Gould was an American finiancierwho became a leading American railroad developer.
Cyrus Fields Born in 1819, Cyrus West Field began work at age fifteen as an office boy for A. T. Stewart & Co., New York City's first department store.
Andrew Carnegie U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland
John D. Rockefeller 1874–1960, U.S. oil magnates and philanthropists.
J.P. Morgan 1867–1943, U.S. financier
Samuel Gompers was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American Labor History Gompers founded the American Foundation Labor, and served as the AFL's president . During WWI Gompers and the AFL worked with the government to avoid strikes and boost morale, while raising wage rates and expanding membership
Eugene V. Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union, as well as candidate for President of the United States. Later he was a presidential candidate as a member of the Socialist
Party of America.
Charles Darwin was an
English naturalist who showed that all species of life have descended over time from common anscetors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
William Haywood was an English architect and also designed in stained glass, wrought iron and cast lead.
Mary Harris Jones "Mother" Jones was a prominent American labor and community organizer, and co-founded the Industrial Workers of America. Mary Jones became largely affiliated with the United Mine Works. With the UMW, she frequently led strikers in picketing and encouraged the striking workers to stay on strike when the management brought in strike-breakers and militias. She was active as an organizer and educator in strikes throughout the country. As a union
organizer, she was know for organizing the wives and children of striking workers in demonstrations on their behalf. She became known as "the most dangerous woman in America.
Jane Addams In 1889 she and her college friend,
Ellen
Gates Starr co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Il, the first settlement house in the United States. Jane and Ellen were the first two occupants of the house, which would later become the residence of about 25 women. Hull house provided social services and cultural events for the neighborhood, The Hull House neighborhood was a mix of various European ethnic groups that had immigrated to Chicago. In 1915, she became involved in the Woman's Peace Party. During her travels, she would spend time meeting with a wide variety of diplomats and civic leaders and reiterating her Victorian belief in women's special mission to preserve peace. Recognition of these efforts came with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Addams in 1931.
Boss Tweed or William Magear Tweed known as"Boss" Tweed, was an American politician most famous for his leadership of
Tammany Hall. Tweed was the third-largest landowner in NYC, a director of the Erie Railway, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel. Tweed was elected to the House of Representatives. He was elected to the New
York State Senate. Tweed was convicted for billions of dollars from NYC taxpayers through political corruption. He died in jail.
James A. Garfield James Abram Garfield was the
20th President.. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration.. Before his election as president, Garfield served as a major general in the United States Armu and as a member of the House
of Representatives
Chester Arthur Chester Alan Arthur served as the
21st President. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer. Before entering elected politics he was the collector of NYC, a position to which he was appointed by President.
Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24 President. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, and is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. Cleveland believed in honesty, independence, integrity, he opposed taxes, and inflationary policies. As a reformer he also worked against corruption, and patronage.
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President. At the age of 21 he became a prominent state politician. During the American Civil WAr Harrison served as a Brigadier
General. He also supervised the admittance of six states into the Union.
Rutherford B. Hays was an
American
politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President. Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote. He ordered federal troops to suppress The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and he ended the Reconstruction.
Louis Sullivan was an
American Architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper
.
Fredrick Law Olmsted was an
American journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture. Frederick was famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in NYC
George Eastman helped to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film . He was an American inventor and philanthropist, who played a leading role in transforming photography from an expensive hobby into an inexpensive and popular hobby. He was also one of the outstanding philanthropists of his time, donating more than $75 million to various projects.
Wilbur and Orville Wright were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplan and making the first controlled [[wiki/Flight / Mechanical_flight|human ]]
flight, on December 17, 1903.
Booker T. Washington was an
American political leader, educator, and author. He was the dominant figure in the African
American community in the United States . He represented the last generation of black leaders born in slavery.
W.E.B. Du Bois was an American
civil
rights activist, sociologist, historian, author and editor.
Ida B. Wells was an African American Journalist and newspaper editor and, with her husband, newspaper owner Ferdinand L. Barnett, an early leader in the civil rights. She documented the extent of lynching in the United States and was also active in the
women’s rights movement and the women’
s sufferage movement
Joseph Pulitzer was a publisher best known for establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism along with
William
Randolph Hearst.
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst was born in San Francisco to millionaire mining engineer George Hearst and Phoebe Anderson Hearst. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after taking control of
The San Franciso Examiner from his father. Moving to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a circulation war with Joseph Pulitsers New york World which led to the creation of yellow journalism — sensationalized stories that may not be completely true. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at its peak. He later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world. He was elected twice as to the House
of Representatives.
Mark Twain or Samuel Langhorne Clemenswell-known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huck Finn and
The
Adventures of Tom Saywer
F.W. Woolworth was the founder of
F.W. Woolworth, an operator of discount stores that priced merchandise at five and ten cents. He pioneered the now-common practices of buying merchandise direct from manufacturers and fixing prices on items, rather than haggling.
.
J.C.Penney James Cash Penney was business and
entrepreneur In 1902, he founded the J.
C. Penney stores.
Florence Kelley was a social and political reformer from
Philadelphia. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight hour work days, and children’s rights is widely regarded today.
Robert La Follette senator, congressman, governor of Wisconsin and candidate for President
Carry Nation was a member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol in pre Prohibition American. She is particularly noted for promoting her views through vandalism Nation would enter an alcohol-serving establishment and attack the bar with a hatchet
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American Civil Rights leader in the women’s rights movement to introduce women’
s sufferage in the US.
Upton Sinclair was a Pulitzer Prize-winning
American author. who He achieved popularity in the first half of the 20th century, acquiring particular fame for his 1906 muckracking novel The Jungle. It exposed conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat
Inspection Act.
Theodore was the 26th President He is well remembered for his energetic persona, range of interests and achievements, and his "cowboy" image. he held offices at the
municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt was an unhealthy child suffering from asthma who stayed at home studying natural history. Roosevelt gained fame for fighting police corruption. He was effectively running the US Navy when the Spanish American War broke out; he resigned and led a small regiment in Cuba known as the Rough Riders. After the war, he returned to New York and was elected Govenor
; and eventually Vice President.
John Muir was an American Naturalist and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. . His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The
Sierra
Club which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States.
Ida Tarbell was an American
teacher author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrackers
" of the progressive area, work known in modern times as investigative journalism."
Lincoln Steffins was an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher, and one of the most famous practitioners of the journalistic style called
muckracking
William Howard Taft was the 27th President and later the 10th Chief Justice. He is the only person to have served in both offices.
Gifford Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the Govenor of Pennsylvania/
He was a Republican. Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United. States.
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President.. In his first term, Wilson persuaded a Democratic
Congress to pass the Federal
Trade Commission, Federal Reserve Act. America's first-ever federal progressive income tax.
Carrie Chapman Catt was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the
National American Woman’s Suffrage Movement twice; her first term was from Her second term with the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., and peaked in the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution

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Native Americans "American Indian" redirects here. For associations with the country of India, see Indians and an american and indian.
The term Native Americans may refer to:
In its broadest sense, the entirety of the indigenous peoples of the American continents:
Ignouse people of america
particular country:
Natives
Natives in the United States
Aboriginal peoples in Canada - indigenous people of Canada, including First Métis and Inuit
adjacent sound
Cultral
Cultral assmiliation, the prevailing culture
Language
Language shift or another languange
Americanzation
Americanzation cultural assimilation United States
Homestead Act The Homestead Act was one of several United States Federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acres (1/4 section) of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies. The new law required three steps: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. Government, including freed slaves, could file an application and improvements to a local land office.
Morrill Act For fifteen years prior to the first introduction of the bill in 1857, there was a political movement calling for the creation of agriculture colleges. The movement was led by Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner of Illinois College. On February 8, 1853, the Illinois legislature adopted a resolution, drafted by Turner, calling for the Illinois congressional delegation to work to enact a land-grant bill to fund a system of industrial colleges, one in each state. Senator Lyman Trumbull Illinois believed it was advisable that the bill should be introduced by an eastern congressman, and two months later Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont introduced his bill.
Industrial Workers of the World The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. Today it is actively organizing and numbers about 2,000 members worldwide, of whom fewer than half (approximately 900) are in good standing (that is, have paid their dues for the prior two months). IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.
Social Darwinism Social Darwinism is a pejorative term used in criticism of ideologies or ideas concerning their exploitation of concepts in biology and social sciences to artificially create political change that reduces the fertility of certain individuals, races, and subcultures having certain "undesired" qualities. It has very rarely been used as a self description.
its opponents.
The term draws upon the common use of the term Darwinism, which has been used to describe a range of evolutionary views, but in the late 19th century was applied more specifically to natural selection as first advanced by Charles Darwin to explain speciation in populations of organisms. The process includes competition between individuals for limited resources, popularly known as "survival of the fittest", a term coined by anthropologist Herbert Spencer
Ellis Island at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, is the location of what was from January 1, 1892, until November 12, 1954 the facility that replaced the state-run Castle Garden Immigration Depot (1855–1890) in Manhattan. It is owned by the Federal government and is now part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, under the jurisdiction of the US National Park Service. Ellis Island was also the subject of a border dispute between the states of New York and New Jersey (see below). It is situated predominantly in Jersey City, New Jersey, although a small portion of its territory falls within neighboring New York City.[

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The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie, steppe and grassland which lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
Native Americans "American Indian" redirects here. For associations with the country of India, see Indians and an american and indian.
The term Native Americans may refer to:
In its broadest sense, the entirety of the indigenous peoples of the American continents:
Ignouse people of america
Or, more-specifically, to the indigenous people living within a particular country:
Natives in the U.S indigenous peoples living within the United States
Aboriginal peoples in Canada - indigenous people of Canada, including First Métis and Inuit
Assimilation, a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound
Cultral assmiliation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture
Language shift or Language assmiliation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another languange
Americanzation cultural assimilation of Native Americans in the United States
Homestead Act The Homestead Act was one of several United States Federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acres (1/4 section) of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies. The new law required three steps: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. Government, including freed slaves, could file an application and improvements to a local land office.
Morrill Act For fifteen years prior to the first introduction of the bill in 1857, there was a political movement calling for the creation of agriculture colleges. The movement was led by Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner of Illinois College. On February 8, 1853, the Illinois legislature adopted a resolution, drafted by Turner, calling for the Illinois congressional delegation to work to enact a land-grant bill to fund a system of industrial colleges, one in each state. Senator Lyman Trumbull Illinois believed it was advisable that the bill should be introduced by an eastern congressman, and two months later Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont introduced his bill.
Grange (also known as Grangepans, Grange, Old Grange, and Grange Hamilton), Bo'ness, Scotland, built in 1564, and demolished in 1906
Populism defined either as an ideology(more rarely and uncommonly), a political philosophy or a type of discourse, is a type of political-social thought which juxtaposes "the people" against "the elites", and urges social and political system changes. It can also be defined as a rhetorical style deployed by members of political or social movements. It is defined by the Cambridge dictionary as "political ideas and activities that are intended to represent ordinary people's needs and wishes".
Gold Standard The gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold. Three distinct kinds of gold standard can be identified. The gold specie standard is a system in which the monetary unit is associated with circulating gold coins, or with the unit of value defined in terms of one particular circulating gold coin in conjunction with subsidiary coinage made from a lesser valuable metal
Industrialization (American English), is the process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one. It is a part of a wider modernisation process, where social change and economic development are closely related with technological innovation, particularly with the development of large-scale energy and metallurgy production. It is the extensive organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing.
Transcontinental Railroad A transcontinental railroad is a railroad network of trackage that crosses a continental land mass from "coast-to-coast" between terminals that are at (or directly connected to) different oceans or recognized continental borders. Such networks can be via the tracks of either a single railroad, or over those owned and/or controlled by multiple operating railway companies along a contiguous route. As Europe is crisscrossed by railways, the railroads within Europe are usually not considered transcontinental with the possible exception of the historic Orient Express.
Credit Mobilier 1872 involved the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company. The distribution of Crédit Mobilier stocks by Congressman Oakes Ames along with cash bribes to congressmen took place during the Andrew Johnson presidency in 1868. The revelation of the congressmen who received cash bribes or stocks in Crédit Mobilier took place during the Ulysses S. Grant administration in 1872. The scandal's origins actually go back to the Abraham Lincoln presidency with the formation of the Crédit Mobilier in 1864.
Interstate Commerce Act The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. The agency was abolished in 1995, and the agency's remaining functions were transferred to the Surface Transportation Board.
Vertical Integration In microeconomics and management, the term vertical integration describes a style of management control. Vertically integrated companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product or (market-specific) service, and the products combine to satisfy a common need. It is contrasted with horizontal integration.
Vertical integration is one method of avoiding the hold-up problem. A monopoly produced through vertical integration is called a vertical monopoly, although it might be more appropriate to speak of this as some form of cartel.
Horizontal integration In microeconomics and strategic management, the term horizontal integration describes a type of ownership and control. It is a strategy used by a business or corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets. Horizontal integration in marketing is much more common than vertical integration is in production. Horizontal integration occurs when a firm is being taken over by, or merged with, another firm which is in the same industry and in the same stage of production as the merged firm, e.g. a car manufacturer merging with another car manufacturer. In this case both the companies are in the same stage of production and also in the same industry
Monopoly In economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos / μονος (alone or single) + polein / πωλειν (to sell)) exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.[clarification needed Monopolies are thus characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods.The verb "monopolize" refers to the process by which a firm gains persistently greater market share than what is expected under perfect competition.
A monopoly must be distinguished from monopsony, in which there is only one buyer of a product or service ; a monopoly may also have monopsony control of a sector of a market. Likewise, a monopoly should be distinguished from a cartel(a form of oligopoly), in which several providers act together to coordinate services, prices or sale of goods. Monopolies can form naturally or through vertical or horizontal mergers. A monopoly is said to be coercive when the monopoly firm actively prohibits competitors from entering the field.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act The Sherman Antitrust Act (Sherman Act, July 2, 1890, ch. 647, 26 Stat requires the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act. It was the first Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, and today still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government. However, for the most part, politicians were unwilling to use the law until Teddy Roosevelt's Presidency (1901-1909) this occurred in the gilded age and the progressive reform.
Trust a business entity formed to create a monopoly or fix prices
American Federation of Labor The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1886 by Samuel Gompers as a reorganization of its predecessor, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions. Gompers became president of the AFL in 1886 and was reelected every year except one until his death on December 13, 1924.
Industrial Workers of the World The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. Today it is actively organizing and numbers about 2,000 members worldwide, of whom fewer than half (approximately 900) are in good standing (that is, have paid their dues for the prior two months). IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.
Social Darwinism Social Darwinism is a pejorative term used in criticism of ideologies or ideas concerning their exploitation of concepts in biology and social sciences to artificially create political change that reduces the fertility of certain individuals, races, and subcultures having certain "undesired" qualities. It has very rarely been used as a self description.
The term first appeared in Europe in 1877 and was popularized in the United States in 1944 by the American historian Richard Hofstadter. Before Hofstad aer's work the use of the term in English academic journals was quite rare The term "social darwinism" has rarely been used by advocates of the supposed ideologies or ideas; instead it has almost always been used (pejoratively) by its opponents.
The term draws upon the common use of the term Darwinism, which has been used to describe a range of evolutionary views, but in the late 19th century was applied more specifically to natural selection as first advanced by Charles Darwin to explain speciation in populations of organisms. The process includes competition between individuals for limited resources, popularly known as "survival of the fittest", a term coined by anthropologist Herbert Spencer
Ellis Island at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, is the location of what was from January 1, 1892, until November 12, 1954 the facility that replaced the state-run Castle Garden Immigration Depot (1855–1890) in Manhattan. It is owned by the Federal government and is now part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, under the jurisdiction of the US National Park Service. Ellis Island was also the subject of a border dispute between the states of New York and New Jersey (see below). It is situated predominantly in Jersey City, New Jersey, although a small portion of its territory falls within neighboring New York City.[
Melting Pot The melting pot is a metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole. It is particularly used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States; the metaphor was popularized by the 1908 play The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill, though similar images had been used in the 19th century
Nativism Nativism (politics) or political nativism, a term used by scholars to refer to ethnocentric beliefs relating to immigration and nationalism . In particular, it may refer to 19th and 20th century political movements in the United States, especially the Know Nothings in the 1850s and the KKK in the 1920s
Immigration is the introduction of new people into a habitat or population. It is a biological concept and is important in population ecology, differentiated from emigration and migration.
Urbanization Urbanization (also spelled "urbanisation") is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.
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Tenement a large building with few windows, all made out of wood. With small rooms they were very dangerous with fires involved.
Mass transit Public transport (also public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) comprises passenger transportation services which are available for use by the general public, as opposed to modes for private use such as automobiles or vehicles for hire.
Settlement house The settlement movement was a progressive reformist social movement, peaking around the 1920s in England and the US, with a goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors In the US, by 1913 there were 413 settlements in 32 states
Political Machine (or simply machine) is a disciplined political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. Although these elements are common to most political parties and organizations, they are essential to political machines, which rely on hierarchy and rewards for political power, often enforced by a strong party whip structure. Machines sometimes have a political boss, often rely on patronage, the spoils system, "behind-the-scenes" control, and longstanding political ties within the structure of a representative democracy. Machines typically are organized on a permanent basis instead of for a single election or event. The term may have a pejorative sense referring to corrupt political machines.
Graft GRAFT is a design studio conceived as a ‘label’ for architecture, urban planning, exhibition design, music and the “pursuit of happiness”. Graft was founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, California by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit, and headed by partner Alejandra Lillo since 2007. A second office was opened 2001 in Berlin, followed by a third office in Beijing in 2004, which is headed by founding partner Gregor Hoheisel.
Patronage Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors. It can also refer to the right of bestowing offices or church benefices, the business given to a store by a regular customer, and the guardianship of saints. The term derives from the Latin patrons, the formal relationship between a Patronus and his
Civil Service servant is a civilian public sector employee working for a government department or agency. The term explicitly excludes the armed services, although civilian officials will work at "Defence Ministry" headquarters. The term always includes the (sovereign) state's employees; whether regional, or sub-state, or even municipal employees are called "civil servants" varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom, for instance, only Crown employees are civil servants, county or city employees are not.
Poll Tax , is a tax of a portioned, fixed amount per individual in accordance with the census (as opposed to a percentage of income). When a corvée is commuted for cash payment, in effect it becomes a poll tax (and vice versa, if a poll tax obligation can be worked off). Poll taxes were important sources of revenue for many governments from ancient times until the 19th century. There have been several famous (and infamous) cases of poll taxes in history, notably a tax formerly required for voting in parts of the United States that was often designed to disenfranchase poor people, including African Americans, Native Americans and white people of non-British descent (e.g., the Irish). In the United Kingdom, poll taxes were levied by the governments of John of Gaunt and Margaret Thatcher in the 14th and 20th centuries, respectively.
Segregation is the separation of different racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a washroom attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Segregation is generally outlawed, but may exist through social norms. Segregation may be maintained by means ranging from discrimination in hiring and in the rental and sale of housing to certain races to vigilante violence (such as lynchings, e.g.) Generally, a situation that arises when members of different races mutually prefer to associate and do business with members of their own race would usually be described as separation or de facto separation of the races rather than segregation. In the United States, legal segregation was required in some states and came with "anti-miscegenation laws" (prohibitions against interracial marriage). There were laws passed against segregation in the USA in the 1960s.
Grand Father Clause A grandfather clause is an exception that allows an old rule to continue to apply to some existing situations, when a new rule will apply to all future situations. It is often used as a verb: to grandfather means to grant such an exemption. Frequently, the exemption is limited; it may extend for a set period of time, or it may be lost once a change is made. For example, a "grandfathered power plant" might be exempt from new, more restrictive pollution laws, which would be applied if the plant were expanded. Often, such a provision is used as a compromise, to effect new rules without upsetting a well-established logistical or political situation. This extends the idea of a rule not being retroactively applied.
Debt Peonage labor) is an arrangement whereby a person is forced to pay off a loan with direct labor in place of currency, over an agreed or obscure period of time. When the debtor is then tricked or trapped into working for very little or no pay, or when the value of their work is significantly greater than the original sum of money borrowed, some consider the arrangement to be a form of un free labor or debt slavery. It is similar to peonage, indenture or the truck system.
Rural Free Delivery carriers are United States Postal Service employees who deliver mail in what are traditionally considered rural areas of the United States. Before Rural Free Delivery, rural citizens of the US had to go to the post office in the cities to get their mail. This changed with the Rural Free Delivery in
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums and literary burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business," vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades
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Progressive Movement Progressivism is a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform. Progressivism is often viewed in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies. The Progressive Movement began in cities with settlement workers and reformers who were interested in helping those facing harsh conditions at home and at work. The reformers spoke out about the need for laws regulating tenement housing and child labor. They also called for better working condition for women
Prohibition often referred to simply as prohibition, is a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol. Typically, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. The term can also apply to the periods in the histories of the countries during which the prohibition of alcohol was enforced. Use of the term as applicable to a historical period is typically applied to countries of European culture. In some countries of the Muslim world, consumption of alcoholic beverages is forbidden according to Islamic Law — though the strictness by which this prohibition was and is enforced varies considerably between various Islamic countries and various periods in their history. In the early twentieth century, much of the impetus for the prohibition movement in the Nordic countries and North America came from Protestant wariness of alcohol The first half of the 20th century saw periods of prohibition of alcoholic beverages in several countries
Muckraker A muckraker seeks to expose corruption of businesses or government to the public. The term originates with writers of the Progressive movement within the United States who wanted to expose corruption and scandals in government and business. Muckrakers often wrote about the wretchedness of urban life and poverty, and against the established institutions of society, such as big business
Referendum A referendum (also known as a plebiscite or a ballot question) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new constitution, a constitutional amendment, a law, the recall of an elected official or simply a specific government policy. It is a form of direct democracy. The measure put to a vote is known in the U.S. as a ballot proposition or measure.
Initiative In political science, the initiative (also known as popular or citizen's initiative) provides a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (plebiscite) on a proposed statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment or ordinance, or, in its minimal form, to simply oblige the executive or legislative bodies to consider the subject by submitting it to the order of the day. It is a form of direct democracy
Recall sent to return an ambassador from a country, either as a diplomatic protest or because the diplomat is being reassigned elsewhere and is being replaced by another envoy
NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP and pronounced N-double-A-C-P, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination". Its name, retained in accord with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term colored people.
Conservation of cultural heritage for the future. Conservation activities include examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care. All of this work is supported by research and education.
Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was conceived by several of the world's leading bankers in 1910 and enacted in 1913, with the passing of the Federal Reserve Act. The passing of the Federal Reserve Act was largely a response to prior financial panics and bank runs, the most severe of which being the Panic of 1907.Over time, the roles and responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System have expanded and its structure has evolve ] Events such as the Great Depression were some of the major factors leading to changes in the system Its duties today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, fall into four general areas:

This poem is about a girl who wants too know what her future has for her. So she goes to this gypsy with a crystal and finds out her future is bad.. This poem Has repition when it says "I shall". This poem also is free verse because it does not follow a specific rhyme scheme. Also there is an example of hyperbole because her future can not acctually be shattered. Overall this is a good poem. I do not like it but that does not mean no one elso will.

This poem is dark. I am not the type of person who likes those poems. This poem has several different poetic devices. One is free verse. This poem does not folllow a specific rhyme scheme. Hyperbole is also used in this poem when its says "running beanth his breath". This is also an extended metaphor becasue the whole poem is about him dying and not wanting to be alive. Overall this is a good poem. Just not one i would read for fun.

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This poem "The Wierd Bord" is a poem about a wierd bird who flys north for winter instead of south. I like this Poem because of the creativity put into it. One poetic device used in this poem is free verse. The reason it is free verse is because is does not follow a rhyme scheme. Ryhme is used in this poem. It rhymes when its says "nice and ice". Hyperbole is used in this poem when it says "beak a chatterin", becasue the beak cant really chatter. Overall this is a good poem and would read it again.

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Toucan- ThisThe poem "Toucan" is a tougne twister. No doubt about it. This is where we come intotongue twister, which brings us to our first poem is through outthroughout the wholeentire poem. Another scheme used throughtthroughout this poem is AA.AA format. The last device used in this poem is rhyme. is about wetherwhether or not we can cathcatch a toucan, ride a toucan,toucan and stick a toucan. OverallOverall, this is creative poem. ItsIt is a tougnetongue twister so itsit is a little I still likeenjoy this poem.

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Jumping Rope- This poemThe poem, "Jumping Rope" is a poem for kids. I think thats maybekids which is why I It is an easy read,to read and also poetic device found in this poem is rhyme of this through outthroughout the poem. second poetic devicedevicefound in this poem is repition.repetion. Repition is in lines twi,two, four, six, when it saysstates "rope and dope". OverallOverall, this is I like this.it all the same. Sometimes we all need to