Gilded Age Review 2020

growth of cities caused by people moving from rural (farm) areas to urban areas

• industrialization

• urbanization

• westward expansion

• immigration

Select all of the options that are PUSH factors

• war

• job opportunities

• no job opportunities

• political unrest

What was America's first big business that was the key to the West?

• steel industry

• oil

• railroad industry

• cotton gin

Term that refers to the "good side" of industrial leaders and their positive contributions to the economy and society

• Titans of Industry

• Robber Barons

Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and Vanderbilt were called __________ because they mistreated their workers.

• Titans of Industry

• Robber Barons

The theory that says government will keep their "hands off" businesses and "let them do" what they want so the economy can grow ( HINT: French phrase)

• monopolies

• free enterprise

• laissez-faire

• Social Darwinism

Click ALL that describe tenements

• small

• clean

• badly built

• luxury

What are monopolies?

• when a business has exclusive control of the supply or trade of a service or product

• when a government has no control over the economy

What was the first law that made monopolies illegal?

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Dawes Act

Select ALL that are PULL Factors

• war

• connect with family members

• more job opportunities

• availability of cheap/free land