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Gilded Age
10 cards·by TK
what is a monoply
when a person or group has control over entire industry
what was a robber barron
a person who used ruthless buisness tacktics
what region of the U.S did most immagrants settle in durning the 1800's and early 1900's
urban centers of Northeast
workers that were hired to replaced striking workers and undetermine the power of the stikes
are called
scabs
how does competition help the consumer
it keeps prices low and maintains qualityof goods
what law did upton Sinclair's THE JUNGLE inspire
the pure food and drug act
what service did muckrakers provide to the american public in the early 1900's
exposing abuses in goverment and industry and fostering public support for progrssive
reforms
why are trusts and monoplies harmful to the econmy
They eliminate competion
Textile companies with por lighting and venilation where known as what
sweatshops
why were the homested steel and pullman railcar strikes so unsuccessful
because the goverment took the buiseness owners side aginst the strikers