Gilded Age Vocab

Business that takes control of an industry by eliminating its competitors

• Monopoly

• Robber Barron

• Industry

• Factory

Community center that provided help to immigrants

• Nursing Home

• Settlement

• Orphanage

• Tenement

A change to something in order to improve the situation

• Change

• New Order

• Reform

• Labor

Group of workers who united to try and earn better working conditions.

• Labor Union

• Captains of Industry

• Progressives

• Labor Party

1870-1900, a time of great wealth

• Industrial Age

• Industrial Revolution

• Gilded Revolution

• Gilded Age

A business leader who becomes wealthy through dishonest methods

• Robber

• Captain of Thieves

• Robber Barron

• Barron VonTrap

Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings were

• Apartments shanties

• Mansion

• Settlement

• Tenement

The development of industries for the machine production of goods

• Second Industrial Revolution

• Industrialization

• Urbanization

• First Urbanization Revolution

An organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law for certain purposes

• Corporation

• Industry

• Small business

• Locally owned