America in the Gilded Age

A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.

• Cartel
• Corporation
• Factory
• Urbanization

Another word for farming

• Agriculture

• Manufacturing

• Technology

• Invention

The first business to industrialize.

• automobile

• aviation

• textile

rapid development of cities

• Utilitarianism

• Urbanization

• Means of production

• Ruralization

Which of the following is the reason people moved to cities?

• for the job opportunities

• to catch a smelly pole cat

• that is where the transcontinental railroad stopped

• to get away from the free farmland out west

How did railroads impact the prices of goods & services?

• Made goods and services more expensive & harder to ship
• Made goods and services cheaper & easier to ship
• Gave people safer transportation
• Opened new land for exploring and settlements

What are identical components that can be used in place of each other?

• Interchangeable parts
• Factories
• Dynamos
• Assembly Lines

Mass production led to:

• Products being more superior in quality
• goods became less expensive
• laborers received higher wages
• industries moved to rural areas

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

What law was created to prohibit businesses from destroying competition but was used to limit power of labor unions?

• Sixteenth Amendment

• Pendleton Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Referendum