AP US History Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 9229690725 | Patent | Allows for exclusive use of license for a product | 0 | |
| 9229690726 | Bessemer Process | Allows for large-scale production of steel | 1 | |
| 9229690727 | Mass Production | Large-scale production of goods | 2 | |
| 9229690728 | Social Darwinism | Applies Darwins theory of evolution to society | 3 | |
| 9229690729 | Monopoly | Having complete control of an industry | 4 | |
| 9229690730 | Trust | Agreement between cooperations to reduce competition and be for their mutual benefits | 5 | |
| 9229690731 | Sherman Anti-trust act | Outlaws trust | 6 | |
| 9229690732 | Collective bargaining | Employees' unions can negotiate contracts with business owners | 7 | |
| 9229690733 | Industrial union | Groups of works organized around a certain industry or skill | 8 | |
| 9229690734 | Civil disobedience | Breaking the law as a form of peaceful protest | 9 | |
| 9253599724 | Quilted age | Term coined by Mark Twain to refer to the late 1800's | 10 | |
| 9253599725 | Laisser-faire | Let the economy do what is does - no regulation | 11 | |
| 9253599726 | Civil service | Process of getting a government job | 12 | |
| 9253599727 | Pendalton Civil service act | Government jobs are to be awarded in MERIT | 13 | |
| 9253599728 | Steerage | How immigrants traveled to the US | 14 | |
| 9282651727 | Quarantine | Isolating someone or something that may pose a threat | 15 | |
| 9282651728 | Tenement | Run down apartment | 16 | |
| 9282651729 | Political machine | A group/political party who acquire power outside the normal channels of government | 17 | |
| 9282651730 | Restrictive covenant | Says what you can't do with property | 18 | |
| 9282651731 | Injunction | Court order to stop doing something | 19 | |
| 9282651732 | Vertical injunction | Refers to controlling all aspects of a business from raw materials to distributions | 20 | |
| 9282651733 | Horizontal integration | Refers to controlling one aspect of an industry | 21 |