Gilded Age Vocabulary

This man was an American industrialist business tycoon who owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry in the late 1800's.

This is a situation in which one company controls an entire industry.

When small companies join together to form one large companies, this is know as a ?

This is the belief that the rich succeed because they are superior to the poor. This belief was applied to big business during the Gilded Age.

This Act outlawed business monopolies but was effective at limiting the power of big business.

These were organizations that protected the interests of the worker, such as the 40 hour work week and dealt with dangerous working conditions.

When the manufacturing economy rises and the agriculture economy declines.

The mass-production of steel from molten iron named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer.

The growth of large cities.

She was the founder of Hull House in Chicago as well as a leader in woman suffrage and world peace.