Gilded Age Vocabulary

A political organization that controls elections, by awarding jobs and other favors in exchange for votes.

• Political Machine
• Social Gospel
• Laissez-Faire
• Industrialization

United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts; a "robber baron," developed the steel industry; practiced vertical integration; believed in the "Gospel of Wealth."

• John D. Rockefeller
• Andrew Carneige
• J.P. Morgan
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Practice where a single company controls every step of the process, from the raw materials to distribution.

• Vertical Integration
• Horizontal integration
• Laissez-Faire
• Agrarian

An influential banker and businessman who bought and reorganized companies. His US Steel company would buy Carnegie steel and become the largest business in the world in 1901.

• John D. Rockefeller
• J. P. Morgan
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

A movement in the late 1800s & the early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation.

• Social Gospel
• Philanthrophy
• Industrialization
• Urbanization

When a country changes itself from a agricultural society into one based on factories/machines.

• Urbanization
• Industrialization
• Agrarian
• Assimilation

Invented the telephone.

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Aaron Montgomery Ward
• John D. Rockefeller

Author of "How the Other Half Lives"

• Upton Sinclair
• Jacob Riis
• Ida B. Wells
• Lincoln Steffens

Type of monopoly where a company controls a majority of one step in the production process.

• Horizontal Integration
• Vertical Integration
• Laissez-Faire
• Trusts

An American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.

• Robber Barons
• Political Boss
• Philanthrophy
• Cornelius Vanderbilt