Industrialization Flashcards

Immigrant

One who enters and becomes established in a country other than that of his or her original nationality.

Nativism

Hostility toward immigrants by native-born people.

Skyscraper

A very tall building.

Tenement

Multifamily apartments, usually dark crowded, and barely meeting minimum living standards.

Political Machine

An organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government.

Party Bosses

The person in control of a political machine.

Graft

The acquisition of money in dishonest ways, as in bribing a politician.

Individualism

the belief that no matter what a person’s background is he or she can become successful.

Social Darwinism

Humans have developed through competition and natural selection with only the strongest surviving.

Settlement House

An institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English.

Americanization

The process of acquiring or causing a person to acquire American traits and characteristics.

Populism

A political movements founded in the 1890s farmers that favored free coinage of silver and government control of railroads and other large industries.

Greenbacks

a unit of paper first issued by the government in the civil war.

Inflation

an ongoing crisis in the increase of prices and decrease in the value of money.

Graduated Income Tax

a tax based on the net income.

Deflation

an ongoing decrease in prices and an increase in the value of money

Cooperatives

a store where farmers buy products from each other.

poll tax

a tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote.

segregation

the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group

Jim Crow Laws

statutes enacted to enforce segregation

Lynch

to execute, by hanging, without lawful approval

Philanthropy

providing money to support humanitarian or social goals.