assimilation - changing to adapt to the United States culture, Capital - money, resources, and equipment for investment, Captains of Industry - positive moniker for the entrepreneurs of the GA, Robber Baron - negative moniker for the entrepreneurs of the GA, Chinese Exclusion - law that forbade any more immigration from China a, corruption - dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery., entrepreneur - a person who runs a business and takes on all the risk and receives all the reward, Free enterprise - an economic system in which businesses operate in competition with little government control, Immigration - the movement of individuals into a population from another population , New Immigrants - during GA there was an increase mainly from Eastern and Southern Europe and Asia, industrialization - the process of changing from an agricultural society to one based on manufacturing; the process of changing from making things by hand to making things by machine, Laissez faire - the government stays out of regulating economy, Mass Production - the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods, Migration - movement from one place to another, monopoly - the exclusive, or total, control of an industry or service, trust - a form of monopoly where companies collude to manipulate control of an industry, Urbanization - the process by which towns and cities are formed, Tenement - the unsafe, unsanitary, cramped housing many workers found themselves living in,

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