https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d en-us 2017-12-03 22:21:10 UTC 2025-10-23 11:04:03 UTC hello@padlet.com kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212664610 Laissez Faire is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government intervention such as regulation, privileges, tariffs, and subsidies.

]]> 2017-12-03 22:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212664610 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212664837 2017-12-03 22:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212664837 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665060 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.  

]]> 2017-12-03 22:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665060 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665335 Robber baron" is a derogatory metaphor of social criticism originally applied to certain late 19th-century American businessmen who used unscrupulous methods to get rich. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665335 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665411 the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665411 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665596 Horizontal integration is the process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain. A company may do this via internal expansion, acquisition or merger. The process can lead to monopoly if a company captures the vast majority of the market for that product or service. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665596 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665719 A political machine is 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. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665719 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665805 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 for over 60 years from 1892 until 1954. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665805 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665931 A tenement is a multi-occupancy building of any sort. However in the United States it has come to mean a run-down apartment building, a slum. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212665931 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666024 In sociology, an ethnic enclave is a geographic area with high ethnic concentration, characteristic cultural identity, and economic activity. The term is usually used to refer to either a residential area or a work space with a high concentration of ethnic firms. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666024 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666176 Nativism is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants. However, this is currently more commonly described as an anti-immigrant position. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666176 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666470 The Gilded Age is defined as 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 misdealing's and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives.  

]]> 2017-12-03 22:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666470 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666785 he term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society.  

]]> 2017-12-03 22:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666785 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666944 the action of making a person or thing American in char

acter or nationality. ]]> 2017-12-03 22:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212666944 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212667993 Populist party definition. A third-party movement that sprang up in the 1890's and drew support especially from disgruntled farmers. The Populists were particularly known for advocating the unlimited coinage of silver. ... They obviously came out of the populist party tradition to some extent. 

]]> 2017-12-03 22:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212667993 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212668449 "Wealth", more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth", 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. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212668449 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212668894 The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212668894 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212669271 support for or advocacy of social reform. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212669271 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212669736 Meaning "one who inquires into and publishes scandal and allegations of corruption among political and business leaders," popularized 1906 in speech by President Theodore Roosevelt, in reference to "man ... with a Muckrake in his hand" in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" (1684) who seeks worldly gain by raking filth. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212669736 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212669996 The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1907 (FMIA) 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. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212669996 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212670432 The Interstate Commerce Commission was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212670432 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212670633 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. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212670633 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212670849 The Sherman Antitrust Act (Sherman Act, 26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1–7) is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212670849 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212670975 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212670975 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671122 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. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671122 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671302 The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol illegal.

]]> 2017-12-03 23:23:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671302 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671475 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was adopted on August 18, 1920. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671475 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671669 Franklin "Frank" Rockefeller was an American businessman and member of the prominent Rockefeller family. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671669 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671859 Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people ever. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212671859 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672135 John Pierpont Morgan Sr. was 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. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672135 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672415 Cornelius Vanderbilt, also known informally as "Commodore Vanderbilt", was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping  

]]> 2017-12-03 23:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672415 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672547 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672547 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672742 Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672742 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672885 Henry Ford was 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. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672885 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672983 Samuel "Sam" Gompers was an English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212672983 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673180 William Magear Tweed —often erroneously referred to as "William Marcy Tweed", and widely known as "Boss" Tweed—was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall.  

]]> 2017-12-03 23:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673180 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673350 Upton Sinclair Jr. was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673350 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673436 Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673436 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673550 Lincoln Joseph Steffens was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. 

]]> 2017-12-03 23:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673550 kevink3060 https://padlet.com/kevink3060/xvkf8m408b6d/wish/212673725 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was 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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