Gilded Age Review

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The belief that the ideas of natural selection (Survival of the fittest) should be applied to the marketplace.

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social darwinism

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What term means the growth of cities?

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urbanization

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Which immigration port was on the Atlantic coast? Options: Angel, Rikers, Alcatraz, Ellis

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Ellis

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What business leader used trusts to dominate the oil industry at the turn of the 20th Century?

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Rockefeller

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the process of developing machine production of goods

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Industrialization

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Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy

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Laissez-Faire

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Refers to the industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages and eliminating competition.

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Robber Barons

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placed a ban on all new immigrants from China

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China Exclusion Act of 1882

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What happened to rapid industrialization in the 20th century? Options: Urbanization- rapid population growth, population drop in the cities, rural areas became popular

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Urbanization- rapid population growth

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So-called new immigrants came from which of the following areas? Options: Western Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America

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Eastern Europe