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the process of developing machine production of goods
He was a British mechanic that moved to America and in 1791 invented the first American machine for spinning cotton. He is known as "the Father of the Factory System" and he started the idea of child labor in America's factories.
A machine that turns the energy released by burning fuel into motion. Thomas Newcomen built the first crude but workable steam engine in 1712. James Watt vastly improved his device in the 1760s and 1770s. Steam power was then applied to machinery.
1- Increased Standard of Living (SOL); 2- Increase technology; and, 3- increase jobs.
1- Exploitation of workers; 2- environmental pollutions; and, 3- decrease in quality of product.
1- Capital; 2- Human innovation; 3- Natural Resources; 4- Political Stability; 5- Population of Workers and Consumers; and, 6- Transportation.
Type of monopoly where a company buys out all of its competition. Ex. Rockefeller
the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies.
A name given company owners such as Carnegie and Rockefeller by people who believed they steered the economy into prosperity.
an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.
1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce
low wages, bad conditions, child workers.
to refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands
An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
Agreement or contract negotiated through collective bargaining process.
Migration to a new location
economic troubles, overcrowding, poverty
Economic Opportunities, Religious Freedoms, & Political Freedoms.
American culture is a blend of many different cultures (i.e. - Assimilation)
Movement of people from rural areas to cities
Sanitation (garbage in streets, sewage), fire (limited water, earthquakes, no fire fighters, wooden buildings), crime (pickpockets)
protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, fostering efficiency
16th- income tax; 17th direct election of the senators; 18th- prohibition; 19th- gave women the right to vote