1a. Gilded Age Vocabulary MHS

Businesses became wealthy, and some corrupt government officials supported business first policies.

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Civil Rights Era

• Roaring Twenties

Railroads industry-

• Provided Farmers access to distant markets, allowed Americans to settle the West. The railroad industry will be monopolized by Cornelius Vanderbilt.

• companies that were engaged in producing, refining, and marketing oil were combined in the Standard Oil Trust; Oil industry monopolized by John D. Rockefeller.

• An example of big business that was made possible by Captain of Industry Andrew Carnegie. It helped fuel industrialism in America and the manufacturing center was Pittsburgh.

• made manufacturing more efficient; light bulb led to more hours of work= more production

electricity-

• made manufacturing more efficient; light bulb led to more hours of work= more production

• Provided Farmers access to distant markets, allowed Americans to settle the West. The railroad industry will be monopolized by Cornelius Vanderbilt.

• companies that were engaged in producing, refining, and marketing oil were combined in the Standard Oil Trust; Oil industry monopolized by John D. Rockefeller.

• An example of big business that was made possible by Captain of Industry Andrew Carnegie. It helped fuel industrialism in America and the manufacturing center was Pittsburgh.

total control of a type of industry by one person or one company

• Chip sellers at Mission High School

• The Cottage Industry

• Monopolies

• monopsony

Made is millions in the steel industry; Philanthropy to improve society through donations to education and the arts

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• J.P. Morgan

Urbanization-growth in industry resulted in people moving to rural areas to work in factories causing sanitation problems.

• True

• False

Political Corruption

• government officials took bribes, bosses and political machines promised infrastructure for votes

• Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party.

Immigrants-Came to America for better economic conditions, farm fertile soil, jobs in factories; citizens wanted assimilation from immigrants.

• True

• False

persecuted because they were Catholic, built the railroad going West. (not the Mexican immigrants)

• Irish immigrants

• Chinese immigrants

• African slaves

• U.S. national

Nativism-wanted restrictions on immigration; assimilation from immigrants

• True

• False