SEM BUNDLE: GILDED AGE REVIEW

Matching: Big Business

• countryside or farm

• Moving from rural to _____

• urban

• what is rural?

• steel

• the lightbulb was created by -

• city

• bessemer process produced ..

• Thomas Edison

• what is urban?

Matching: Big Business

• monopolies

• what is a philanthropist?

• extend work and business hours

• another name for big business

• Carnegie Steel

• Andrew Carnegie

• Standard Oil

• John D. Rockefeller

• gives money to charity

• what could businesses now do with the lightbulb?

Matching: Big Business

• government is hands off business

• laissez-faire

• special privileges

• political corruption

• only the strong businesses survive

• JP Morgan

• banking

• social darwinism

• big business

• Government increase in support for

Matching: Big Business Review

• efficiently

• During the Gilded Age, many were moving from -

• rural to urban

• The Bessemer Process produced ____ efficiently

• Thomas Edison

• _____ created the lighbulb

• extend their work hours

• businesses could also manufacture more

• steel

• with the lightbulb, businesses could now -

Matching: Big Business Review

• philanthropist

• Andrew Carnegie donated money to -

• steel industry

• How did Andrew Carnegie pay his workers?

• schools & libraries

• Andrew Carnegie was also known as a _____ because he donated his money

• oil industry

• Andrew Carnegie was in the -

• low wages

• John D. Rockefeller was in the -

Matching: Big Business Review

• laissez-faire

• the words to describe the gilded age

• only the strong businesses survive

• What does it mean when the government is "hands-off"?

• government corruption & big business

• social darwinism

• the rise of big business

• There was an increase in government support for

• limited government interference

• If the government is "laissez-faire" what does that mean?

Matching: Urbanization

• in exchange for votes

• Boss Tweed controlled which city?

• government corruption & big business

• who did political bosses give jobs & housing to?

• New York city

• where were people moving to?

• urban areas (big cities)

• The words to describe the Gilded Age

• immigrants

• why would political machines help immigrants?

Matching: Urbanization

• it increased

• who was the head of Tammany Hall?

• basic services

• the average work hours in a day during the Gilded Age

• improve infrastructure & help immigrants

• the influx of immigrants made it difficult for cities to provide -

• 10 to 14 hours

• What happened to the population across the U.S?

• Boss Tweed

• Political Machines would do what two things?

Matching: Urbanization

• demand better pay and safer conditions

• labor unions were formed to -

• women, children, and immigrants

• how many days a week people worked on average during the Gilded Age

• $3 to $12 weekly

• Which groups of people were paid less?

• 6 days

• average salary during the Gilded Age

• Knights of Labor

• one major labor union was the -

Matching: Urbanization

• Haymarket Square Riot

• which strike turned violent?

• employment & housing

• the strike that occurred after an increase in hours with no extra pay

• immigrants

• who worked for better pay and safer conditions?

• labor unions

• who did political bosses get votes from?

• Pullman Strike

• what did political machines give immigrants in exchange for votes?