Gilded Age Overview 2

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

• Large monopolies

• small private business

• political machines

• labor unions

What legislation is this cartoon referring to?

• 30 day waiting period for immigration

• Deportation after completion of Transcontinental Railroad

• Immigration Reduction Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

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 about the control of Stand Oil?

• Standard Oil is a monster trying to control the entire USA

• Standard Oil is trying to save government from political bosses

• Standard Oil is trying to keep government on the right track to benefit laborers

• Stand Oil had control over many aspects of government

What does this image say about the need for labor unions?

• labor unions were desirable because the workers were being crushed by difficult living conditions and poor pay.

• Labor unions decreased nativism

• Labor unions helped big business keep control of the workers

• Labor unions helped reduce the length of the work day

Economic philosophy based on "Survival of the fittest"

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

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

• Robber Barons

• Bessemer Process

• Monopoly

• Philanthropy

This is a theory that the rich were obligated to help communities by giving back in the form of libraries, school, universities but not giving directly to individuals

• National Market

• Philanthropy

• Gospel of Wealth

• Laissez-faire

This was completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah making it possible to travel by land across the United States to California.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Interstate Highway

• Route 66

• Henry Ford's Model T

This is a theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.

• Cul-de-sac

• Laissez-Faire

• Fleur de Lis

• Achtung