5216791008 | Laissez-Faire | Government is hands off and lets the marketplace determine prices and wages | 0 | |
5216795366 | Jim Crow Era | 1870-1960s South, where African Americans and whites are segregated | 1 | |
5217149955 | Social Darwinism | The belief that businesses also have a "survival of the fittest", the best will survive, the others will fail | 2 | |
5217158031 | Monopoly | When ONE company controls an entire industry and limit competition | ![]() | 3 |
5217159974 | Business Trust | Similar to monopoly, when a FEW companies control an entire industry | ![]() | 4 |
5217171610 | Unrestricted Immigration | Factories that needed many unskilled factory workers led to... | 5 | |
5217181893 | Nativist | Someone who believes that immigration should be restricted | 6 | |
5217196141 | Cultural Pluralism | America is like a salad bowl with many cultures being represented | ![]() | 7 |
5217199861 | Labor Unions | Groups of workers that unite to improve their working conditions | ![]() | 8 |
5217203675 | Muckrakers | Investigated journalists that exposed the problems of Gilded Age society | ![]() | 9 |
5217208714 | Gilded Age | Era of extremes of wealth and poverty during the late 1800s | 10 | |
5217220319 | Graduated Income Tax | Tax that increased with income, the rich pay higher percentage in taxes than the poor | ![]() | 11 |
5217230068 | Antitrust Laws | Laws that prevent monopolies and trusts from forming and break up those that too | 12 | |
5217236007 | Women's Right Movement | Focused on gaining suffrage (the right to vote) | 13 | |
5217240383 | Progressives | Group of reformers that work to make positive changes and fix the problems of the Gilded Age | 14 | |
7758874593 | Social | Relating to society, how people live and their interactions with each other | 15 | |
7758884441 | Political | Relating government, laws, and leaders | 16 | |
7758887614 | Economic | Relating to the economy, taxes, and business | 17 |
US History Unit 1 Flashcards
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