Booming Business
This is the general name for oil, lumber, labor, and steel that helped kickstart the Gilded Age.
What are resources?
Most Americans were moving to this type of place during the Gilded Age.
What are cities?
This type of business formed after one company dominated an industry and was able to exploit customers by being the sole provider of a good.
What is a monopoly?
This process stripped Native Americans of their culture and forced them into adopting the American way of life.
What is assimilation?
This term refers to someone who wishes to limit or completely stop the amount of immigrants moving into the United States.
What is a Nativist?
This type of transportation helped businesses transport goods much easier than in the past.
What are railroads/trains?
This standard was hated by farmers and populists during the late 1800s because it kept inflation and the amount of money in circulation low.
What is the gold standard?
This person, the wealthiest man in America, created the Standard Oil company that eventually became a monopoly (answer must have his full last name).
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This term refers to the fate of America to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This word that starts with a U refers to people moving into cities.
What is urbanization?
This form of communication allowed anyone to talk to anyone else provided they have the same device.
What is the telephone?
These organizations organized strikes, attempted to collectively bargain, and overall fought for better wages and conditions for workers.
What are labor unions?
This person, an investor and banker, helped to create US Steel and other companies.
Who was J. P. Morgan?
This movement, started by farmers to solve some of their issues, focused on fighting businesses by granting more rights for laborers and raising crop prices. Their most famous representative was William Jennings Bryan.
What is the Populist/People's Party?
This word that starts with an I refers to the rapid from farming to working in factories in America.
What is industrialization?
The United States government believed in this economic policy during the Gilded Age.
What is laissez-faire economics?
This term was used to refer to people who gained their wealth through their ruthless business policies that many saw as unfair.
What is "robber barons"?
This person, who has a university in Tennessee named after him, helped to build America's railroads after making a small fortune in the steam boat industry.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
These two industries were instrumental in helping people move to the West and the Great Plains.
What are cattle ranching and mining?
This policy means that the government should not interfere with the economy.
What is laissez-faire economics?
True or false: wealth was shared equally among both business owners and workers during the Gilded Age.
What is false?
The Populist Party wanted to do this to the federal government.
What is strengthen it?
This person came from a poor background in Scotland, influencing him to write The Gospel of Wealth, advocating for the rich to give up most of their wealth for the betterment of society.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This act divided reservations into 160 acre plots for Native Americans to farm, but it also helped to destroy their tribal identity
What is the Dawes Act (1887)?
This term refers to "survival of the fittest," but instead of animals, it is people.
What is social Darwinism?