4A. Monopolies and Government’s Response

Complete the sentences by selecting the correct answer.

e

b

free enterprise

protective tariffs

federal regulation

women

immigrants

farmers

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#Gilded Age-Interstate Commerce Act

What is a monopoly and why are they bad for consumers? Explain your answer.

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#Gilded Age-Monopolies

What is the pay for a linen worker, lumber

worker, cloth worker, and iron worker?

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#Gilded Age-Monopolies

Who are the men sitting on top of the boat?

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#Gilded Age-Monopolies

Who are the people at the bottom of the

boat? What is the cartoonist trying to say?

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#Gilded Age-Monopolies

Why do you think it says “Hard Times” in the

water? Explain.

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Businesses became wealthy, and some corrupt government officials supported business first policies.

(a)  

• Gilded Age
• Progressive Era
• Civil Rights Era
• Roaring Twenties

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#Gilded Age-Gilded Age Characteristics

Transcontinental Railroads

• Provided Farmers access to distant markets, allowed Americans to settle the West. The railroad industry will be monopolized by Cornelius Vanderbilt.

• companies that were engaged in producing, refining, and marketing oil were combined in the Standard Oil Trust; Oil industry monopolized by John D. Rockefeller.

• An example of big business that was made possible by Captain of Industry Andrew Carnegie. It helped fuel industrialism in America and the manufacturing center was Pittsburgh.

• made manufacturing more efficient; light bulb led to more hours of work= more production

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#Gilded Age-Transcontinental Railroad

electricity-

• made manufacturing more efficient; light bulb led to more hours of work= more production

• Provided Farmers access to distant markets, allowed Americans to settle the West. The railroad industry will be monopolized by Cornelius Vanderbilt.

• companies that were engaged in producing, refining, and marketing oil were combined in the Standard Oil Trust; Oil industry monopolized by John D. Rockefeller.

• An example of big business that was made possible by Captain of Industry Andrew Carnegie. It helped fuel industrialism in America and the manufacturing center was Pittsburgh.

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#Gilded Age-electricity (light bulb)

​ (a)   are total control of a type of industry by one person or one company

• Monopolies
• Chip sellers at Mission High School
• The Cottage Industry
• monopsony

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