Gilded Age & Industrialization

What were tenement houses?

• Large public buildings designed for the rich

• Community centers to help poor people

• Small, cramped apartments for poor people

• Check-in-stations for immigrants coming to America

Laissez-Faire Economics

• Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

• A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products

• A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors

• Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top

Vertical Integration

• Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

• A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products

• A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors

• Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top

Horizontal Integration

• Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

• A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products

• A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors

• Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top

Social Darwinism

• Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

• A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products

• A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors

• Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top

Political Machine

• A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

• Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including the support of immigration-restriction measures

• Factors that induce people to move to a new location

• A party organization that commands enough votes to maintain control of a city, county, or state

Ellis Island

• Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

• Narrow, low-rise apartment buildings common in cities during the Gilded Age

• Journalists who exposed the problems of the Gilded Age

• Immigration processing center that opened in San Francisco Bay in 1910

What does the term gilded mean?

• Full of riches and opportunities

• Gaining new land

• Covered in a thin layer of gold

• Made of solid gold

What are some reasons why immigrants came to America during the Gilded Age? (Select all that apply)

• to find jobs

• to escape famine

• to escape persecution

• to be able to vote

What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 do?

• Increased the number of Chinese immigrants

• Prohibited work-seeking Chinese from entering the U.S.

• Prohibited Chinese immigrants from leaving the U.S.

• Prohibited immigrants from entering the U.S.