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The nation seem like it was Golden and prosperous but under the shiney exterior there were problems
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immigration and industrialization
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Americans who feared that immigrants would take jobs
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Were essential to westward expansion because they made it easier to travel to trade with and live in the west
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Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages and engaging in unfair business practices
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A railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York He popularized the use of steel rails in his railroad, which made railroads safer and more economical
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Established the Standard Oil Company the greatest wisest and meanest monopoly known in history
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Built a steel mill empire; US STEEL
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A highly successful banker who bought out Carnegie.
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A name given company owners such as Carnegie and Rockefeller by people who believed they steered the economy into prosperity.
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Factors that induce people to leave old residences. ex: War famine persecution
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Factors that induce people to move to a new location. ex: factory jobs freedom
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1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers showing nativist attitudes
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Poor living/working conditions Overcrowding poverty crime slums
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an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background that allowed them to maintain culture traditions and have support
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A party organization that recruits voter loyalty by provided services and help
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The giving of government jobs to people who had helped a candidate get elected
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Did away with the "spoils system" and made the hiring of federal employees merit based
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Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy. Used during the Gilded Age
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The development of industries for the machine production of goodsled to mass production and increased availability of goods
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Organizations of workers who together put pressure on the employers in an industry to improve working conditions and wages.
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in the Gilded Age lost land and were forced onto reservations and encouraged to assimilate
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1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners and encouraged assimilate
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the growth of cities as more people moved into urban areas
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When one company controls most or all of a particular market.
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The process of adopting the culture and customs of another group or making a group more Americanized
