Gilded Age

An increase in political corruption, big business, immigration, and urbanization took place during the-

• Progressive Era

• Gilded Age

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

This type of economic system through the U.S. government during the Gilded Age allowed for the growth of big business and monopolies-

• Monopolies

• Nativism

• Laissez-faire (hands off)

• New Deal

During the Gilded Age there was an increase in ____________________ and ___________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.

• Work and Infrastructure

• Corruption and Laissez-Faire

• Urbanization and Immigration

• Monopolies and Political Bosses

Powerful industrials like Carnegie and Rockefeller were called “Robber Barons” because

• provided good paying jobs, but produced unsafe products

• provided new goods and services while underpaying their laborers

• supported workplace reform but drove their competitors out of business.

• worked closely with their competitors and charged consumers incredibly high prices

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the term robber baron best defined a person who did what?

• stole from the rich to give to the poor

• used ruthless business tactics

The complete control of an industry by one person or company.

• Progressive Era

• Assembly line

• Industrial Revolution

• Monopoly

A time of great and rapid changes, when people switched from making goods by hand to manufacturing goods with power-driven machines.

• Progressive Era

• Assembly line

• Industrial Revolution

• Monopoly

The rapid growth of cities flooded by immigrants and people moving from the rural communities.

• urbanization

• Settlement house

• Muckraker

• Tenement

An apartment house, often in cities, in which living conditions are deplorable.

• urbanization

• Settlement house

• Muckraker

• Tenement

People who moved to America (primarily in the cities) from another country in search for jobs and democratic ideals.

• Immigrants

• Muckraker

• Nativism

• Migrant Farm Workers