https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3 unit 2 en-us 2016-10-06 04:17:52 UTC 2024-07-28 12:36:12 UTC hello@padlet.com ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684324 The Industrial Revolution was a period of major industrialization that took place during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and quickly spread throughout the world; the American Industrial Revolution, commonly referred to as the second Industrial Revolution, started sometime between 1820 and 1870. This time period saw the mechanization of agriculture and textile manufacturing and a revolution in power, including steam ships and railroads, that effected social, cultural and economic conditions.

]]> 2016-10-06 04:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684324 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684377 is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government interference such as regulations, privileges, tariffs, and subsidies. The phrase laissez-faire is part of a largerFrench phrase and literally translates to "let (it/them) do", but in this context usually means to "let go"]]> 2016-10-06 04:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684377 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684504 A trust or corporate trust is an American English term for a large business with significant market power. It is often used in a historical sense to refer to monopolies or near-monopolies in the United States during the Second Industrial Revolution in the 19th century and early 20th century.]]> 2016-10-06 04:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684504 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684604 The term "robber baron" was applied to powerful 19th century industrialists who were viewed as having used questionable practices to amass their wealth. On the other hand, "captains of industry" were business leaders whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way.]]> 2016-10-06 04:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684604 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684692
Vertical integration is a strategy where a company expands its business operations into different steps on the same production path, such as when a manufacturer owns its supplier and/or distributor. Vertical integration can help companies reduce costs and improve efficiencies by decreasing transportation expenses and reducing turnaround time, among other advantages. ]]> 2016-10-06 04:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684692 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684836 Horizontal integration is the acquisition of additional business activities that are at the same level of the value chain in similar or different industries.


]]> 2016-10-06 04:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128684836 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685472 A political machine is a political organization in which an authoritative boss or small group commands the support of a corps of supporters and businesses (usually campaign workers), who receive rewards for their efforts. The machine's power is based on the ability of the workers to get out the vote for their candidates on election day.]]> 2016-10-06 04:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685472 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685561 Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine.]]> 2016-10-06 04:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685561 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685589 A tenement is, in most English-speaking areas, a substandard multi-family dwelling in the urban core, usually old and occupied by the poor. In Scotland it still has its original meaning of a multi-occupancy building of any sort, and in parts of England, especially Devon and Cornwall, it refers to an outshot, or additional projecting part at the back of a terraced house, normally with its own roof.]]> 2016-10-06 04:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685589 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685631  is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity.[8] The term is usually used to refer to either a residential area or a workspace with a high concentration of ethnic firms]]> 2016-10-06 04:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685631 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685696 is the political position of supporting a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.[1] According to Fetzer, (2000) opposition to immigration is common in many countries because of issues of national, cultural, and religious identity.]]> 2016-10-06 04:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685696 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685941  is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 30s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding.]]> 2016-10-06 04:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128685941 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686038  is a name given to various phenomena emerging in the second half of the 19th century, trying to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest in human society.]]> 2016-10-06 04:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686038 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686119 In countries outside of the United States, Americanization or Americanisation is the influence American culture has on the culture of other countries, such as their popular culture, media, cuisine, technology, business practices, or political techniques. The term has been used since at least 1907. While not necessarily a hostile term, it is most often used by critics in the target country worried about the tendency.]]> 2016-10-06 04:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686119 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686141 is a philosophy based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancement in science, technology, economic development, and social organization are vital to improve the human condition. Progressivism became highly significant during theAge of Enlightenment in Europe]]> 2016-10-06 04:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686141 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686197 was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines.]]> 2016-10-06 04:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686197 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686352  was an American oil industry business magnate and philanthropist, who is considered to be the wealthiest American of all time by virtually every source]]> 2016-10-06 04:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686352 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686494 was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He is often identified as one of the richest people and one of the richest Americans ever.]]> 2016-10-06 04:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686494 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686550 was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation.]]> 2016-10-06 04:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686550 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686595  was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.]]> 2016-10-06 04:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686595 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686627 was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.]]> 2016-10-06 04:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686627 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686656  American labor union leader and a key figure inAmerican labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924. ]]> 2016-10-06 04:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686656 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686713 was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th century New York City and State. At the height of his influence, Tweed was the third-largest landowner in New York City and a director of the Erie Railroad, the Tenth National Bank, and the New-York Printing Company, as well as proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel.]]> 2016-10-06 04:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686713 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686771 was an American writer of nearly 100 books and other works across a number of genres. Sinclair's work was well-known and popular in the first half of the twentieth century, and he won thePulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.]]> 2016-10-06 04:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686771 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686823 was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography]]> 2016-10-06 04:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686823 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686925 was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century.]]> 2016-10-06 05:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128686925 ch_alexa https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128687120 served as the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and as the 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft chief justice, a position in which he served until a month before his death.]]> 2016-10-06 05:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ch_alexa/6v67gy4t8og3/wish/128687120