https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz Vocab en-us 2017-11-29 22:15:47 UTC 2026-03-08 09:21:10 UTC hello@padlet.com jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211654809 the theory or system of government that upholds the autonomous character of the economic order, believing that government should intervene as little as possible in the direction of economic affairs.

]]> 2017-11-29 22:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211654809 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211656217 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.

]]> 2017-11-29 22:25:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211656217 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211659072 a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century).

]]> 2017-11-29 22:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211659072 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211659567 the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.]]> 2017-11-29 22:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211659567 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211660244 The merger of companies at the same stage of production in the same or different industries. When the products of both companies are similar, it is a merger of competitors. When all producers of a good or service in a market merge, it is the creation of a monopoly.]]> 2017-11-29 22:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211660244 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211660665 a political group 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

]]> 2017-11-29 22:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211660665 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211935306 Island in the harbor of New York City, southwest of Manhattan. It served as the prime immigration station of the country. Some twelve million immigrants passed through it during this time.]]> 2017-11-30 16:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211935306 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211937217  A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

]]> 2017-11-30 16:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211937217 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211938818  It is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity.]]> 2017-11-30 16:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211938818 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211940933  a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.]]> 2017-11-30 16:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211940933 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211942710 The time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives.]]> 2017-11-30 16:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/211942710 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212052143  A term coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest." 

]]> 2017-11-30 19:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212052143 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212053346 It is the process of an immigrant to the United States of America becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs and customs and is fully assimilated into American society.]]> 2017-11-30 19:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212053346 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212054891  US political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issue, free coinage of gold and silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax

]]> 2017-11-30 20:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212054891 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212056043 It is an article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.

]]> 2017-11-30 20:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212056043 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212057440 A religious movement that arose in the United States in the late nineteenth century with the goal of making the Christian churches more responsive to social problems, such as poverty and prostitution.]]> 2017-11-30 20:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212057440 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212061917 They were crusading journalists, photographers and authors who published their work in order to raise awareness of awareness of social issues and injustices.

]]> 2017-11-30 20:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212061917 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212063859 This was the belief that people in government can bring about answers to social problems and inequalities.

]]> 2017-11-30 20:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212063859 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212066751  It is an American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbranded meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

]]> 2017-11-30 20:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212066751 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212068406  a former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states

]]> 2017-11-30 20:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212068406 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212099574 The Children's Bureau is the first federal agency within the U.S. Government—and in fact, the world—to focus exclusively on improving the lives of children and families.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212099574 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212100036 It was a federal law designed to limit monopolistic and other anti competitive practices by large American corporations such as Standard Oil Company.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212100036 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212100653  that allows the federal (United States) government to levy (collect) an income tax from all Americans. Income tax allows for the federal government to keep an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws and carry out other important duties.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212100653 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212101002 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. 

]]> 2017-11-30 22:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212101002 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212102146 It is an Amendment that established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212102146 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212102379 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage

]]> 2017-11-30 22:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212102379 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212102572  An American businessman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; a founder of the Standard Oil Company.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212102572 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212102715 A Gilded Age industrialist, the owner of the Carnegie Steel Company, and a major philanthropist.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:29:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212102715 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212103157 An American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212103157 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212103736 An American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth of over 100 million in railroads and shipping.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212103736 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212104213 an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. 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. 

]]> 2017-11-30 22:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212104213 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212104668 Serbian-American engineer and physicist who made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212104668 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212104883 An American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212104883 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212105368 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.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212105368 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212105533 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.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212105533 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212106122 An American novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, whose works reflect socialistic views. He gained public notoriety in 1906 with his novel The Jungle, which exposed the deplorable conditions of the U.S. meat-packing industry.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212106122 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212106415  A Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212106415 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212106566 The most famous of the American muckraker journalists of the period 1903-1910. His exposes of corruption in government and business helped build support for reform.

]]> 2017-11-30 22:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212106566 jeffreym2123 https://padlet.com/jeffreym2123/wcfqdlvceluz/wish/212391380 An American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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