Urbanization
Housing for immigrants
Tenement Housing
A business or company trying to corner the market
A monopoly
Where Immigrants entered coming from Asia
Angel Island
Where did the Industrial Revolution start
Great Britain
Favoring people from the country over immigrants
Nativism
Transportation innovations during the Gilded Age
Trains and subways
A rich upper class person who exploits workers to make more money
A robber baron
Process of assimilating to American culture
Americanization
Cities can build up when they ran out of room
Skyscrapers
Spending money and buying new products as soon as they come out
Consumerism
Housing for immigrants
Tenements
Someone who accepts the risk and starts their own business
An entrepreneur
Legislation that banned immigration from Asia
Chinese Exclusion Act
Agency formed to try and limit monopoly on railroads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Port where European immigrants entered the U.S.
Ellis Island
Outskirts of cities where wealthier people would live
The Suburbs
Consolidating multiple businesses into one. A business buying out other businesses.
Horizontal integration
Harsh workplace environments that were mostly filled with immigrants
Sweatshops
Formed to protect workers and their rights
Labor Unions
Limited government interference in business
Laissez-Faire
Turning iron into steel
Bessemer process
Legislation passed that tried to stop monopolies from forming
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Houses that were located around a business that were rented out to employees
Company Towns
Editor of a newspaper that made newspapers so popular during the gilded age
William Randolph Hearst or Joseph Pulitzer
Titans of industry during the gilded age
Rockefeller and Carnegie