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UNIT 2 industrialization
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- 1Tenement• Overcrowded, slum housing
- 2Rural• Areas where not many people live
• In “the country”
• These areas are always shrinking - 3*Industrialization• Making stuff with machines in big factories
• Mass production - 4*Capitalism• CAPITAL=MONEY
• Businesses competing to make money
• Laissez Faire, Market Economy - 5Agrarian• Related to farming
- 6Mechanization• Producing stuff with machines
• Automation - 7Industry• The business of making things
- 8*Laissez-faire• An enlightenment philosophy
• Means “Hands Off”--the government stays
out of businesses way, and lets them
direct their own course
• Capitalism, Market Economy - 9*Social Darwinism• Survival of the fittest
• Only the strong survive—everyone is
competing against everyone else
• Example: small businesses can’t compete
with bigger ones, so they just go out of
business - 10*Corporation• business that is owned by many people
not just one person
• Example: Walmart, Sony, Ford, etc. - 11*Monopoly/Trust• One company is the only
place you can get a certain
good or service
–No competition
• Example: Standard Oil, U.S.
Steel - 12Sherman Antitrust Act• 1st federal law to attempt to limit
monopolies - 13Efficiency• Eliminating waste:
– Eliminating wasted time, money, energy,
resources, etc.
• Example: taking the shortest route to get
somewhere - 14Productivity• Measure of inputs vs outputs
• If you produce more with the same amount of
resources or less, your productivity goes UP
• Example: today you 10 workers produce 10
cars; tomorrow, the same 10 workers produce
15 cars. Productivity went up. - 15*SpecializationGetting really good at producing or
doing ONE thing.
Examples: a kicker on a football team;
a line worker who just bolts on the
front left tire of a car - 16*Interdependence• Two or more things that need each
other to work. Example:
– Steel Companies need railroads to ship their
steel around the country
– Railroads need steel to make their tracks,
trains, bridges, etc. THEY NEED EACH
OTHER
• This is a result of specialization - 17*Immigration• People Moving Into a country
• Example: a person moves here from
Italy or Mexico - 18Emigration• People Leaving a country
• The Opposite of immigration - 19migration• Moving within a country
- 20nativism• Showing favoritism toward non-immigrants
(“natives”)
– Has NOTHING to do with American Indians!
• Example: refusing to hire immigrants - 21*Urbanization• Cities getting bigger
• Urban = City - 22Political Corruption• Using a position of power to cheat and
make money - 23Suburbs• Communities just outside of cities—not as
densely populated, but not rural
• EX: Pickerington, Westerville, Dublin - 24PolicyA course of action
• It answers the question: “How are we
going to do things?”
Example: “Late to class, no hall pass” - 25*Legislation• Laws OR Law-making
• Examples: The Affordable
Healthcare Act, Sherman Antitrust
Act - 26*Antitrust Legislation• Laws against
monopolies/trusts - 27Labor• Work OR Workers
• Example: coal miners, teachers, steel
workers, auto workers, etc. - 28*Labor Union/ Labor Organization/Organized Labor• workers that get together (organize)
for better wages, working
conditions, and hours
» EXAMPLES: United Autoworkers, Ohio Education
Association - 29Collective Bargaining• Workers banding together to negotiate
with managers for better pay, working
conditions, and hours
• What labor unions do - 30Great Railroad Strike (1877)• Riots against Railroads
• No Unions Involved
• Led to the formation of Labor Unions
• Local, State, & Federal Militias called in to
end the violence - 31Pullman Strike (1894)• Nationwide strike by the American Railway
Union
• Striking against the Pullman Company
• Lots of rioting - 32Homestead Strike (1892)• Strike of US Steel workers
• There was gun fight between workers and
strikebreakers
• Led to a decline in union membership - 33Haymarket Riot (1886)• Chicago labor protest turned where there
was a bombing & a riot - 34*Unregulated /Unregulated Working Conditions• Unregulated=no government oversight
• Working conditions=what the environment
is like at your work
– Mostly related to safety
• Unregulated working conditions means the
government doesn’t tell businesses what
the environment at work must be like - 35Middle Class• People who work but have a good amount
of money and a relatively high standard of
living - 36*Labor Legislation• Laws about work. Often about unions
- 37Business regulation• The government telling businesses what
they can and cannot do
• EXAMPLES: Minimum wage, Meat
Inspection Act - 38Political Parties• Groups that try to run the government
– REPUBLICANS
– DEMOCRATS
– GREEN PARTY
– LIBERTARIAN PARTY - 39Interest Groups• A group of people who want something in
common from the government--a
particular thing is “of interest” to them.
Examples? - 40Public OpinionWhat the people think
- 41The Media• The forms of mass communication
–Newspapers
–TV
–Magazines
–Radio - 42Leisure• Free Time--used for enjoyment or relaxing
- 43Standard of Living• How hard or easy your life is—the easier
life is, the higher your standard of living
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