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Gilded Age Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Standard Oil Company | An American oil producing, transporting, refining, marketing company, and monopoly. Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refinery in the world of its time. |
Monopoly | The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service. |
Trust | an arrangement whereby a person (a trustee) holds property as its nominal owner for the good of one or more beneficiaries. |
Social Darwinism | The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. |
Nativism | the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. |
Old Immigration | Immigrants arrived in the mid-1800s, coming mostly from northwestern Europe |
New Immigration | Immigrants arrived a generation later, traveling mostly from southeastern Europe. |