US History Unit 1 Flashcards

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