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- 3. land Land suited for agriculture.
- 5. Complete control of a product or business by one person or group.
- 6. The social process of absorbing one cultural group into another.
- 8. An economic system based on private ownership of capital
- 9. Integration Practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution.
- 11. D. Rockefeller Was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Revolutionized the petroleum industry with establishment of Standard Oil Company and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.
- 13. Theory that stated business, if left unregulated, would act in a way that would benefit the nation. "Hands off" approach, no government.
- 15. The political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite.
- 16. Line Production Arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed.
- 20. Federal land set aside for Native Americans.
- 22. Ford 1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.
- 23. Process A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities.
- 24. Railroad Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west.
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- 1. A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.
- 2. African Americans migrating to the Great Plains state (ie: Kansas & Oklahoma) in 1879 to escape conditions in the South.
- 4. Integration Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level.
- 7. Money for investment.
- 9. A Spanish term for cowboy.
- 10. Unions An organization formed by workers to strive for better wages and working conditions.
- 12. A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates some or all means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
- 14. Darwinism The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle.
- 17. Houses Community centers located in the slums and near tenements that gave aid to the poor, especially immigrants.
- 18. Standard A monetary system in which paper money and coins are equal to the value of a certain amount of gold.
- 19. Urban apartment buildings that served as housing for poor factory workers. Often poorly constructed and overcrowded.
- 21. Carnegie A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.