https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx Rancella Zhou p.4 en-us 2016-10-04 00:26:27 UTC 2024-06-27 13:16:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Condos.png rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035179 The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban.]]> 2016-10-04 00:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035179 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035342 A economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government interference such as regulations, privileges, tariffs, and subsidies.]]> 2016-10-04 00:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035342 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035383 A trust is a relationship whereby property is held by one party for the benefit of another. A trust is created by a settlor, who transfers property to a trustee.]]> 2016-10-04 00:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035383 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035399 Feudal landowner that, seeking to alleviate their financial difficulties, recurred to banditry protected by his feud's legal status.]]> 2016-10-04 00:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035399 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035429 Arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company. Usually each member of the supply chain produces a different product]]> 2016-10-04 00:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035429 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035451 Horizontal integration is the acquisition of additional business activities that are at the same level of the value chain in similar or different industries.]]> 2016-10-04 00:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035451 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035466 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 , who receive rewards for their efforts.]]> 2016-10-04 00:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035466 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035484 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.]]> 2016-10-04 00:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035484 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035488 A tenement is, in most English-speaking areas, a substandard multi-family dwelling in the urban core, usually old and occupied by the poor.]]> 2016-10-04 00:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035488 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035499 Usually urban areas, within which culturally distinct minority communities maintain ways of life largely separate from those of the generally larger communities that surround them.]]> 2016-10-04 00:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128035499 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038134 Nativism is the political position of supporting a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.]]> 2016-10-04 01:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038134 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038170 The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As American wages were much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants.]]> 2016-10-04 01:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038170 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038190 Social Darwinism 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.]]> 2016-10-04 01:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038190 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038209 the influence American culture has on the culture of other countries, such as their popular culture, media, cuisine, technology, business practices, or political techniques.]]> 2016-10-04 01:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038209 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038223 It drew support from angry farmers in the West and South and operated on the left-wing of American politics. It was highly critical of capitalism, especially banks and railroads, and allied itself with the labor movement.]]> 2016-10-04 01:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038223 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038239 Article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.]]> 2016-10-04 01:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038239 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038267 The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.]]> 2016-10-04 01:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038267 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038288 Progressives believe that individuality, progress, and change are fundamental to one's education. Believing that people learn best from what they consider most relevant to their lives, progressivists center their curricula on the needs, experiences, interests, and abilities of students.]]> 2016-10-04 01:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038288 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038309 The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.]]> 2016-10-04 01:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038309 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038319 Progressivism 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.]]> 2016-10-04 01:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128038319 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128039728  American oil industry business magnate and philanthropist, who is considered to be the wealthiest American of all time by virtually every source, and largely the richest person in modern history.]]> 2016-10-04 01:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128039728 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128039749 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]]> 2016-10-04 01:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128039749 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040775 American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation.]]> 2016-10-04 01:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040775 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040802 American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. Born poor and having but a mediocre education, he used perseverance, intelligence and luck to work into leadership positions in the inland water trade, and invest in the rapidly growing railroad industry.]]> 2016-10-04 01:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040802 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040859 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.]]> 2016-10-04 01:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040859 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040873 An American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.]]> 2016-10-04 01:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040873 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040933 Was an english-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as the organization's president]]> 2016-10-04 01:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040933 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040963 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.]]> 2016-10-04 01:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040963 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040979 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 the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.]]> 2016-10-04 01:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040979 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040999 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.]]> 2016-10-04 01:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128040999 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128041024 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.]]> 2016-10-04 01:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128041024 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128041039  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.]]> 2016-10-04 01:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128041039 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042822 United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. These requirements also apply to imported meat products, which must be inspected under equivalent foreign standards.]]> 2016-10-04 01:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042822 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042829 The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later trucking) to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers, including interstate bus lines and telephone companies.]]> 2016-10-04 01:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042829 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042855 The United States Children's Bureau is a federal agency organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. Today, the bureau's operations involve improving child abuse prevention, foster care, and adoption.]]> 2016-10-04 01:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042855 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042869 First measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts; it was named for Senator John Sherman. Prior to its enactment, various states had passed similar laws, but they were limited to intrastate businesses.]]> 2016-10-04 01:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042869 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042890 The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.]]> 2016-10-04 01:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042890 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042919 The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. ]]> 2016-10-04 01:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042919 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042935 Ratified on January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages.]]> 2016-10-04 02:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042935 rancellazhou https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042943 Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.]]> 2016-10-04 02:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rancellazhou/kw45b8okrbyx/wish/128042943