Gilded Age Vocab Review

What is the process of people of one culture merging into another culture called?

• Melting pot

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Association

industrialists who established big businesses in the late 1800s. This term was used

positively, talking about wealthy people who contributed to society

• Immigrants

• Labor leaders

• Captains of Industry

• Philantrapist

What is the term for a person who settles in a new country?

• Migrant

• Immigrant

• Native

• Alien

What does industrialization refer to?

• Growth of industry

• Cultural assimilation

• Political reform

• Economic decline

What is horizontal consolidation?

• Merging firms in the same business

• Increasing cultural diversity

• Establishing labor unions

• Promoting laissez-faire economics

What does laissez-faire economics advocate?

• Government control of businesses

• Government non-interference in private businesses

• Complete control of a product

• Favoring native-born citizens over immigrants

What is a monopoly?

• Control of labor union

• Complete control of a product/service

• Partial control of a product or service

• Control of a political machine

What does nativism favor?

• Immigrants over native-born citizens

• Native-born Americans over immigrants

• Industrial good over man made goods

• Republicans over Democrats

Who is a philanthropist?

• A person who gives donations to worthy causes

• A person who leads a political machine

• A person who merges firms

• A person who settles in a new country

What is a political machine?

• A type of industrial equipment

• An unofficial city organization to keep a party in power

• A political party leader

• A person who runs for office