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| a person who sets up new businesses to make a profit |
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| Explain business in the late 1800's |
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| corporations formed, stock sold, banks gave huge loans,monopolies, this made more goods available made factories worse places to work |
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| The production method that puts a product together as it moves along a conveyor belt |
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| the life of a poor immigrant |
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| tenement living, overcrowding, poor sanitation, long hours at work, low pay, three Rs"McGuffeys Eclectic readers, public transportation, parks, museume,discrimination, freedom of religion, learning english, freeer government noot enough money for food and medicine. |
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| practice in which unions bargain with management for workers as a group |
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| Thomas Edison's research laboritory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, was called an "invention factory" because it |
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| created many inventions, such as the light bulb and the phonograph |
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| the sensational reporting style of some newspapers durig the late 1800's. |
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| between 1808 and 1906 immigration |
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| the process of becoming part of another culture |
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| from 1898 to 1914 in the united states |
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| there was little demand for workers in the united states |
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| New technology such as electricity and steel and improved attractions such as department stores museums, and professional sports |
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| helped cities to grow between 1860 and 1890 |
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| why did states improve public education after the civil war? |
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| to develop an educated workforce |
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| the federal government imposed high tariffs on imported goods ad congress gave land grants to railroads |
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| ways government supported the growth of business after the civil war |
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| immigrants steal jobs from people born in this country |
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| The use of more crowd pleasing features, and the growth of cities |
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| aided in the growth of newspapers in the late 1800's |
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| John D. Rockefeller would agree that competition in the marketplace is |
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| costly for business owners |
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| A settlement house was a place where |
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| services were offered to the poor |
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| the purpose of writers who wrote realist literature was to |
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| show life as it really was |
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| steel was important to industrial growth after the civil war because |
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| it could be made stronger and more cheaply than iron |
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