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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