Gilded Age Vocabulary - 2nd

The time between 1870 and 1900 (late 1800s) during which the population and economy grew quickly along with political and corporate corruption. "The rich got richer at the expense of the poor"

• Laissez-Faire

• American Foundations

• Gilded Age

• Monopoly

The exclusive possession or control of an industry in order to control prices of products.

• Monopoly

• Nativism

• Political Machine

• Corporation

Gospel of Wealth

• book by Andrew Carnegie that argued that the wealthy have an obligation to give something back to society.

• the notion that the industrialists should own the poor and not help financial in their struggles

• The idea that leading steel producer at the time would own the first billion-dollar corporation

• A news article about a cartoonist for the New York Times that drew many famous political cartoons including one of Boss Tweed.

This helped US steel production grow

• kerosene porcess

• air brakes

• Bessemer process

• West process

Increased ​ (a)   led to cities becoming more ​ (b)   in the late 1800s.

• immigration
• populated
• trade
• assimilated
• production

This is a social and economic system in which private business compete with little interference from the government

• free enterprise system

• free response system

• free travel system

• freedom of choice

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

What was the famous New York Democratic political machine called?

• Tammany Hall
• Tammany Tweed
• Thomas Pendergast Machine
• William M. Tweed Hall

What were TWO major reasons for the decline of Native American culture during the 20th century?

Think about the question carefully and record your answer below.

During the late 1800s, the US saw an increase in immigrants from ​ (a)   ​ arriving at ​ (b)   . Other groups of immigrants also include ​ (c)   .

• eastern Europe
• Ellis Island
• Chinese and Irish
• coastal England
• San Francisco Bay
• Chinese and Korean