The Gilded Age Vocabulary

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Laissez-Faire Economics

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Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

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Vertical Integration

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A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products.

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Horizontal Integration

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A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors.

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Tenements

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Narrow, low-rise apartment buildings common in cities during the Gilded Age

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Urbanization

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The growth of cities

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Which of the following is a characteristic of the Gilded Age? people began moving to rural areas to farm acres of cotton and grain, the political process was opened up to citizens of different ethnicities and social class, America expanded westward to accomplish its goal of Manifest Destiny, the government passed favorable laws to help the growth of big business

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the government passed favorable laws to help the growth of big business

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The Gilded Age is infamous for

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businessmen bribing government officials

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Who is responsible for the invention of the light bulb?

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Thomas Edison

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The invention of the light bulb is significant because it enabled factory workers to work longer hours resulting in greater production of goods.

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it enabled factory workers to work longer hours resulting in greater production of goods

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In the late 1800s many territories in the western part of America became states. This fact can most likely be attributed to the: influx of immigrants that came to America settled in the western territories, the transcontinental railroad allowed people to quickly move west, the Panama Canal allowed ships to efficiently reach the west coast of America, the Native Americans were relocated to reservations so now American citizens could move onto their former land.

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the transcontinental railroad allowed people to quickly move west