Gilded Age Vocabulary

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Practice where a single company controls every step of the process, from the raw materials to distribution.

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Vertical Integration

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Type of monopoly where a company controls a majority of one step in the production process.

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Horizontal Integration

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The time between 1870 and 1900 during which the population and economy grew quickly along with political and corporate corruption.

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Gilded Age

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Worker organizations who tried to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions.

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Labor Unions

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The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

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Monopoly

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An assembly line is...

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a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

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From this image, who is in control of the US lawmakers?

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Large monopolies

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A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions.

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Sweatshop

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What inventor first implemented the Assembly Line on a large scale?

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Henry Ford

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Which of the following is true of working conditions in the Second Industrial Revolution?

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factories were often crowded, poorly ventilated, and prone to accidents