Triangel Shirtwaste Factory

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Textbook Definition: One of the many new businesses that took advantage of improved technology to mass-produce a quality product at good price.

Sentence:Sam Bernstein, the production manager at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory,loved watching his workers use up-to-date tools and production methods.
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Industrialization

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Textbook Definition:The birth and growth of businesses that make distribute products through the use of machinery.

Sentence: Mrs. Vanderblit's party reflected the way rapid industrialization was transforming American life in the decades after the Civil War.

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Entrepreneur

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Textbool Definition: Someone who starts a business and is good at making money.

Sentence: Entrepreneurs in banking, commerce, and industry were amassing enourmous.
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Laissez-Faire

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Textbook Definition:The theory that economies work best when governments do not interfere with them.
Sentence: According to the doctrine of laissezi-faire, economies worked best when government did not meddle in them.

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William Vanderbilt

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Textbook Definition:On March 26, 1883, Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt threw a party to show off her family's new home in New York City.
 Sentence: More than 1,200 of New York's social elite flocked to Mrs. Vanderbilt's ball, dressed in glittering costumes.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Textbook Definition:A man who had made a fortune in banking and shipping.
 Sentence: Cornelius Vanderbilt was the grandfather of Mrs. William Vanderbilt's husband.
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Rail Barons

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Textbook Definition:Industrialists who were wealthy and powerful.
 Sentence: Cornelius Vanderbilt was a rail baron.
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Tycoon

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Textbook Definition: A wealthy powerful person in business or industry.

Sentence: Mrs. Vanderbilt's husband, a railroad tycoon, was the grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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The Gilded Age

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Textbook Definition: The period of the the growth of wealth and economy.

Sentence:In 1873, the great American writer Mark Twain scornfully dubbed this time of showy wealth "The Gilded Age"
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Mark Twain

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Textbook Definition: An American author and humorist.

Sentence: In 1873, the great American writer Mark Twain scornfully dubbed this time of showy wealth "The Gilded Age"

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Land of Opportunity

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Textbook Definition:The phrase that suggests that a place presents many possiblities for people to earn a prosperous living ,and succeed in their economic and social objectives.
 Sentence: The new "land of opportunity" was located in the cities of the Northeast and around the Great Lakes, where factories provided thousands of new jobs.

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