Big Business Leader
What was the name given to big business leaders?
Captains of Industry
What was the name of places immigrants lived in when the moved to cities in America
tenements
When a company buys other companies so that they own all of the companies in a certain business.
Trust
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
Urbanization
What key aspect of city living did Jacob Riis' book, "How the Other Half Lives", highlight?
tenement housing conditions
Who invented the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
What place did many immigrants from Europe pass through in order to come to America
Ellis Island
These systems provided various residents with jobs, legal assistance, welfare, and food. Because of these systems, most mayors were figureheads
Political Machines
a document giving someone the sole right to make and sell an invention.
Patent
where employees are payed low wages for long hours, and under poor conditions
sweat shop
Who made a fortune in the oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
What words describe cities during the gilded age?
Dirty or crowded
an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.
Robber Barons
What is the name of an organization that protected workers?
Union
United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892)
Jay Gould
What leader changed the way steel was produced?
Andrew Carnegie
Which inventions helped industrialize America in the late 1800s
light bulb and electricity
Person who gives donations to worthy causes.
Philantropist
Complete control of a product or business by one person or group; a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller thereby giving greater control over setting prices.
Monopoly
What region saw tremendous growth during the Gilded Age?
North East
What leader made his fortune in the railroad shipping industry?
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
What invention made it possible to fit such a large population?
Skyscrapers
Development of a system which supports machine production of goods
Industrialization/ Mechanization
The rapid growth of cities, mostly in the Northeast & Midwest. America started the 1800's as a largely rural and agricultural people but ended the century as a more urban and industrial population.
Urbanization
A process created to produce large quantities of steel; the blasting of air through molten iron to produce high quality steel.
Bessemer process