Gilded Age

A period of U.S. history from 1870 – 1900 noted for political corruption, financial speculation, and over-the-top lives of wealthy industrialists and financiers

• Robber Baron

• Immigration

• Gilded Age

• Trusts

Government services provided for the benefit of the community, such as education, medical care, and housing.

• Political Machine

• Captain of Industry

• Social Service

• Chinese Exclusion Act

A political organization where a person or small group of people influences enough votes to have control over any type of government in a city, county, or state.

• Political machine

• Political Bosses

• Captain of Industry

• Philanthropy

A business leader who, while building a personal fortune, contributed positively to the country in some way

• Social Gospel

• Political Bosses

• Immigration

• Captain of Industry

The first immigration law meant to keep out an entire ethnic group (the Chinese). It prevented certain kinds of Chinese workers from entering the country.

• Urbanization

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Labor Union

• Gilded Age

Giving money to people who need it, without wanting anything in return

• Trust

• Philanthropy

• Monopoly

• Labor

A leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments.

• Robber Baron

• Political Bosses

• Urbanization

• Social Gospel Movement

A movement among some Americans in the late 1800s to eliminate poverty, ignorance, etc. by reforming society according to Christian principles

• Social Gospel Movement

• Industrial Revolution

• Tycoon

• Horizontal Integration

The growth of towns and cities into areas of high population usually caused by the growth of industry and increasing modernization

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

• Urbanization

• Labor Union

People coming into a country in order to love and work there

• Monopoly

• Muckraker

• Trusts

• Immigration