U.S. Industrial Age

What is industrialization?

• Countries changing from agriculture to industry

• A point in time when humans began to live in factories

• A historical term about tools used through human history

• A cool name

Industrialization means less ​ (a)   and more​ (b)  

• farms
• factories

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A term used frequently in the 19th century during America's Gilded Age to describe successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical.

• Industrial

• Robber Baron

• Political Machine

• Political Boss

Match the Robber Baron to the industry they dominated.

• Steelrobber baron

• John D. Rockefeller

• Oil

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Railroads and Shipping

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Banking

• Andrew Carnegie

• Makeup and Haircare products

• J.P. Morgan

A raw material from the environment that can be used to make products for food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment.

• Products

• Industry

• Tenements

• Natural Resources

An economic system where private individuals or organizations own and control the means of production, and prices and distribution are determined by competition in a free market.

• Socialism

• Industrialism

• Capitalism

• Communism

The production of large quantities of a standardized article by an automated mechanical process.

• Assembly Line

• Mass Production

• Hard Work

• Labor Unions

An arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled,

• Assembly Line

• Mass Production

• Hard Work

• Labor Unions