2023-24 Gilded Age Vocabulary

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

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

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

• America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

• America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

• It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

Hands off or no government intervention in business.

• laissez-faire

• monopoly

• trust

• free enterprise

Negative term used to describe large businessmen of the late 1800's because of the fact that they used ruthless practices to destroy competition and took advantage of workers. And exploited resources to amass wealth

• robber baron

• captain of industry

• entrepreneur

• philanthropist

To have complete control of a product or business by one person or group.

• monopoly

• trust

• corporation

• free enterprise

The process of moving to another country to take up permanent residence.

• Immigration

• Nativism

• Urbanization

• Philanthropy

Worker organizations who tried to collectively bargain for better pay and working conditions.

• Labor Unions

• Monopoly

• Political Machine

• Free Enterprise System

Policies favoring the current citizens as opposed to immigrants.

• Immigration

• Urbanization

• Laissez-Faire

• Nativism

Define Nativism

• An immigration station that opened in 1892, located at the mouth of the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. It closed in 1954.

• A place where different people, styles, theories are mixed together.

• Located in the San Francisco Bay, it was the primary immigration station for the West Coast from 1910-1940. It also served as a deportation station.

• The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

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

• Large monopolies

• small private business

• political machines

• labor unions