Gilded Age - STAAR Review

businesses became wealthy; corrupt government officials supported business-first policies

• Gilded Age

• Electricity

• Railroads

• Monopolies

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

• electricity

• gilded Age

• railroads

• monopolies

provided farmers access to distant markets; allowed Americans to settle the West; Bessemer steel provided stronger and cheaper materials to build

• railroads

• electricity

• Homestead act

• assimilation

total control of an industry by one company; laws were passed to stop and protect consumer prices

• monopolies

• railroads

• labor unions

• urbanization

philanthropist; improved society by donating to education and the arts. Industrialist, led expansion of American steel industry

• Andrew Carnegie

• Immigrants

• Nativists

• Thomas Edison

fought for better pay, improved working conditions, and the end of child labor; resulted in increased federal involvement

• Labor unions

• urbanization

• homestead act

• Chinese exclusion act

rapid industrialization led to people moving to cities for employment; caused sanitation problems; taller buildings built because of cheaper steel

• Urbanization

• Labor Unions

• Railroads

• Gilded Age

government officials took bribes; political machines promised infrastructure and jobs in exchange for votes

• political corruption

• nativists

• assimilation

• urbanization

moved to U.S. for better economic opportunities; some worked in factories, others farmed; forced to assimilate

• immigrants

• nativists

• monopolies

• assimilation

wanted restrictions on immigration; encouraged assimilation; viewed immigrants as competition for jobs

• nativists

• immigrants

• political corruption

• assimilation