Gilded Age Vocabulary

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

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal integration

• Laissez-Faire

• Agrarian

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

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

The time between 1870 and 1900 during which the population and economy grew quickly along with political and corporate corruption.

• Laissez-Faire

• American Foundations

• Gilded Age

• Monopoly

The process of moving to another country to take up permanent residence.

• Immigration

• Nativism

• Urbanization

• Philanthropy

Worker organizations who tried to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions.

• Labor Unions

• Monopoly

• Political Machine

• Free Enterprise System

The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

• Monopoly

• Nativism

• Political Machine

• Corporation

Policies favoring the current citizens as opposed to immigrants.

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Laissez-Faire

• Nativism

An assembly line is...

• a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

• Factories

• movable parts

Define Ellis Island

• An immigration station that opened in 1892, located at the mouth of the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. It closed in 1954.

• The location where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads met and the Transcontinental Railroad was completed. A Golden Spike Ceremony was held on May 10, 1869, to celebrate the event

• Located in the San Francisco Bay, it was the primary immigration station for the West Coast from 1910-1940. It also served as a deportation station.

• The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Define Tenements

• Immigrants primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe: Italy, Asia, China, and Poland

• Single family dwellings divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate the new growth of population in the United States. They were often poorly lit, cramped, and lacked plumbing and good ventilation

• Federal law signed by President Chester Arthur in 1882 prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

• Immigrants primarily from Northern and Western Europe: England, Ireland, and Germany

• Population shift from rural areas to urban areas