Gilded Age Vocabulary

The movement from homemade and handmade products to factory and machine made products.

• Gilded Age

• Monopoly

• Industrialization

• Corporation

Something that someone creates

• Invention

• Industrialization

• Entrepreneur

• Natural Resources

Made the production of steel more economical.

• Monopoly

• Knights of Labor

• Free Enterprise System

• Bessemer Process

A company chartered by a state and recognized in law as a separate person.

• Free Enterprise System

• Corporation

• Standard Oil

• Labor Union

Individuals are free to produce and sell whatever they wish; they are also free to buy and use whatever they can afford.

• Industrialization

• Free Enterprise System

• Monopoly

• Labor Union

Worked his way up from penniless Scottish immigrant to one of America's richest and most powerful men.

• Andrew Carnegie

• Robert Baron

• John D Rockefeller

• Missy Mitchell

A corporation of steel mills he owned.

• Standard Oil

• Carnegie Steel

• Bessemer Process

• Laissez Faire

Because of peoples lavish lifestyles the period from 1865-1900

• Monopoly

• Laissez Faire

• Gilded Age

• Knights of Labor

A person (or small group) who starts a business in the hope of making a profit.

• Entrpreneur

• Labor Union

• Corporation

• Free Enterprise System

People who destroyed their competition to keep their workers

• Knights of Labor

• Immigration

• Robber Baron

• Bessemer Process