Unit 2 The West and The Gilded Age Vocabulary & Terms

The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society

• Horizontal integration

• Assimilate

• Laissez-Faire

• Concrete individualism

The movement of people living in one country into another.

• Urbanization

• Motivation

• Decimation

• Immigration

A policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.

• Nativism

• Expansionism

• Capitalisms

• Socialism

The act of voluntary giving by individuals or groups to promote the common good.

• Common Decency

• Philanthropy

• Chiefdom

• Community Service

An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.

• Woke Movement technological theory

• Innovation

• Assimilation

• Entrepreneur

An approach to politics which views "the people" as being opposed to "the elite" and is often used as a synonym of antiestablishment.

• Anti Obstructionist

• Sideways approach

• Antifa approach

• Populism

The production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line.

• Amazon Plus

• Sams Club

• Mass Production

• The Manhattan Project

Large companies that control the industry or sector they were in with the ability to control the price of the goods and services they provided.

• Monopoly

• Tenements

• Investment control groups

• Entrepreneurs

Organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources.

• BLM Movement

• Bill Gates Foundation

• Settlement House

• House of Innovation

The religious wing of the progressive movement which had the aim of combating injustice, suffering and poverty in society.

• Social Gospel

• Pie Social

• Social Butterfly

• Social Muckraker