Gilded Age

From this image, who is in control of the US lawmakers.

• Large monopolies

• small private business

• political machines

• labor unions

What does this image say about the control of political bosses?

• political bosses wanted to squish the opportunities in New York

• political bosses control all of New York City

• Political bosses were showing their approval with a "thumbs up" image

• New Jersey did not have political bosses

Why does this image depict Rockefeller so large?

• He was a political boss who tried to win governmental favors

• He was a government inspector looking for corruption

• He was a robber baron who used his money and power to influence government

• He was looking to correct all of pollution cause by industrialization

What does this image say is the controlling factor of decisions by political machines?

• resources

• influence

• power

• money

Economic philosophy based on "Survival of the fittest"

• Social Darwinism
• National Market
• Knights of Labor
• Free Enterprise System

complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition

• Robber Barons
• Bessemer Process
• Monopoly
• Philanthropy

inventor known for the telephone and the company that later becomes AT&T

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Knights of Labor
• Thomas Edison
• John D. Rockefeller

completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah making it possible to travel by land to California

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Interstate Highway
• Route 66
• Henry Ford's Model T

theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market

• Cul-de-sac
• Laissez-Faire
• Fleur de Lis
• Achtung

Nativists oppose...

• Business regulation
• Immigration
• Capitalism
• Democracy