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AP American History #9 Flashcards

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8528166667Taylorism●Streamline production and profit boost by systematically controlling costs/work practices. ➢*assemby line* introduced by Fedrick Winslow Taylor to speed up the proccess of construction.0
8528166668Henry Ford●United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947). ➢founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines.1
8528168424Vertical/horizontal integration●Combining with Companies you rely on or combining with companies of the same buisness.2
8699094147Vertical integrationAn attempt by one company to simultaneously control several related aspects of the media business.3
8699110444Horizontal Integration●Type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition. ➢Rockefeller4
8528168425John D. Rockefeller●Standard Oil Company (Symbol for big buisness) ➢Established the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history.(Horizontal Integration)5
8528169066Social Darwinism●Use of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution to explain human societies. ➢The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle.6
8528169067The Gospel Of Wealth● ➢7
8528170239Edward Bellamy●In 1888, he wrote Looking Backward, a description of a utopian society in the year 2000. ➢Social Darwinism and evolution8
8528170240Great Railway Strike●*1877* A series of pay cuts for railroad workers led to a strike that spread across several states ➢Strikes destroyed $1 million worth of railroads.9
8528172456Knights of Labor●Labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms including reducing hours and equal and weekly pay for both sexes. Included workers of any color, trade, skilled or unskilled.10
8528172457Samuel Gompers●Leader of the American Federation of Labor ➢Major union organization that focused on wages hours. -Received huge backlash after the bombing at Hay market that resulted in the death of many policemen.11
8528173128Pullman Strike●Violent 1894 railway workers' strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide ➢escalated, halting both railroad traffic and mail delivery, 2,000 troops were sent to break up the strike12
8528173129New Immigrants●Immigrants who had come to the US after the 1880s from southern and eastern europe.13
8528173768Central Park●Frederick Law Olmsted ➢Large public, urban park in New York City. One of the innovations planned out by olmsted. Movement for "Improvement" of city life included libraries, museums, theaters etc.14
8528173769Great White City●Archetecter Burnham in charge of project ➢"City beautiful" for the 1893 Worlds Fair15
8528174287Jacob Riis●Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" ➢a Danish American journalist who wrote about the life in the tenements16
8528174288Political Machines● ➢17
8528174289Vaudeville●Stage entertainment made up of various acts, such as dancing, singing, comedy, and magic shows.18
8528174898Realism●19th century artistic and literature movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is.19
8528174899Pragmatism●The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth. ➢Religion and ideas shouldn't be relied on unless personaly experienced.20

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