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Chapter 15 & 16
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History
9th Grade
11/26/2007

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Communism  
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bans private ownership of property      
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Steerage

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poorest accommodations on an ocean voyage
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Suburbs
Definition
 residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city
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Immigration Restriction League

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group that wanted all immigrants to take a literacy test
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Conspicuous consumption

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spending money freely to show your wealth
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Social Gospel
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to use Christian principles to solve social problems
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Skyscrapers
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large, multi-story buildings

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compulsory education laws
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laws requiring parents to send their children to school
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Yellow journalism
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style of sensational news reporting
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Bessemer Process
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method of steelmaking that led to huge increase in the amount of steel produced
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telegraph
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means of communicating over wires with electricity
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steel baron
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important and rich person in the steel industry
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corporation
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a business in which shares of stock are sold
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horseless carriage
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 name given to the forerunner of the automobile
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horizontal integration
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when one company buys other companies producing the same product 
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trunk lines
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major railroad lines that went across the Great Plains
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transcontinental railroad
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allowed Americans to travel from coast to coast in several days
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social darwinism
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belief that the “fittest” people would be successful and the most “unfit” would fail
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Frederick Law Olmsted

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designed Central Park in New York
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George Westinghouse
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invented the compressed air brake for the railroad
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Ragtime
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music created by African Americans
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patent
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protected inventor’s rights to make, use or sell their invention
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City Beautiful Movement
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pushed to have planned public parks
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Alexander Graham Bell
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invented the telephone
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John Dewey
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philosopher that created a "Laboratory School"
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Thomas Edison
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inventor that made discoveries in electricity
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vaudeville
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a show with animal acts and comics
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National Game of United States in late 1800's
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baseball

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Knights of Labor
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one of America's first unions

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Sherman Antitrust Act
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law that prohibited monopolies and trusts that restrained trade
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