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US History STAAR EOC 11th Grade Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Gilded Age - 1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics and growing gap between the rich and poor Technological (Second Industrial) Revolution - based on steel, railroads, electricity...

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US History STAAR EOC 11th Grade

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Gilded Age - ✔✔1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside,

despite the corrupt politics and growing gap between the rich and poor

Technological (Second Industrial) Revolution - ✔✔based on steel,

railroads, electricity, oil-based products

Alexander Graham Bell - ✔✔He was an American inventor who was

responsible for developing the telephone.

Thomas Edison - ✔✔American inventor best known for inventing the

electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.

Telephone - ✔✔A device that converts sound into electrical signals that

can be transmitted over distances. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell.

Free Enterprise System - ✔✔An economic system in which people are

free to operate their businesses as they see fit, with little government

interference.

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Laissez-Faire - ✔✔No government intervention in business.

Corporation - ✔✔A business that is owned by many investors.

Bessemer Process - ✔✔A process for making steel more efficiently,

patented in 1856.

Entrepreneurship - ✔✔Accepting the risk of starting and running a

business.

Monopoly - ✔✔A market in which there are many buyers but only one

seller.

Andrew Carnegie - ✔✔A business man that increased his power through

by gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases

of steel production development.

John Rockefeller - ✔✔Creator of the Standard Oil Company who made a

fortune on it and joined with competing companies in trust agreements that

in other words made an amazing monopoly.

Robber Baron - ✔✔a negative term for business leaders that implied

they built their fortunes by stealing from the public

Captain of Industry - ✔✔business leader who has a positive impact

Philanthropy - ✔✔Giving money to help the poor

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Political Machines - ✔✔Corrupt organized groups that controlled political

parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more

votes for his party.

Political Boss - ✔✔representative for or head of the political machine;

gained votes for their parties by doing favors for people.

Immigration - ✔✔Coming to live permanently in a foreign country

Push and Pull Factors - ✔✔The push factor involves a force which acts

to drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to

a new location.

Nativists - ✔✔U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were

suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them

Ethnic Ghettos - ✔✔immigrants lived here due to cultural similarities,

especially in big cities

Child Labor - ✔✔Children were viewed as laborers throughout the 19th

century. Many children worked on farms, small businesses, mills and

factories.

Labor Union - ✔✔An organization of workers that tries to improve

working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

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Strikes - ✔✔times when workers refuse to work until owners improve

conditions

Knights of Labor - ✔✔1st effort to create National union. Open to

everyone but lawyers and bankers. Vague program, no clear goals, weak

leadership and organization. Failed

Haymarket Massacre - ✔✔Was when there was a peaceful protest at the

the Haymarket square and a bomb was thrown at the police and the police

started shooting at innocent people

AFL (American Federation of Labor) - ✔✔A labor union created by

Samuel Gompers that was the ONLY labor union that only accepted skilled

workers

Samuel Gompers - ✔✔He was the creator of the American Federation of

Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers

IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) - ✔✔A labor organization for

unskilled workers, formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists in

1905. Sometimes called Wobblies

Manifest Destiny - ✔✔A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans

that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic

the Pacific.

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