Gilded Age Terms
The term to describe Carnegie or Rockefeller when they have complete control of a product.
Monopoly
A place where people worked countless hours with thousands of people in a small, hot, dark, and dirty workhouse, often owned by Rockefeller, Carnegie, or Morgan.
Sweatshop(s)
Known for creating Standard Oil and having a monopoly on kerosene and gasoline
John D. Rockefeller
The name of the two ports where most immigrants would entire the United States during the Gilded Age
Ellis Island and Angel Island
When something is thinly covered in gold paint but the underside is rough it is called this. Also in the name of this period
Gilded
Very tall buildings on the skyline in cities
Skyscraper
When immigrants come from Europe and Asia to living in cities the United States became a mix of people from different nationalities blending together to make a single culture is called this.
Melting Pot
Worked with Tom Scott and then created Carnegie Steel
Andrew Carnegie
Housing built in the clearer, quieter perimeter of the city.
Suburbs
This place was in Pittsburgh, was the biggest "plant" Carnegie owned, was run by Frick, and is known for its workers striking with 9 of them ending up dead.
Homestead Steel Plant
Robber Baron
Low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible is called this.
Tenements
Created US Steel and General Electric. This man worked closely with Thomas Edison
J. P. Morgan
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
This person's VP was Roosevelt, he has a mountain named after him, and was influenced by money from the industrialists.
William McKinley
This process shortened the production of steel from about 2 weeks to 15 minutes and helped Andrew Carnegie produce steel at a much faster rate to build skyscrapers.
Bessemer Process
This very dangerous illness that reached epidemic proportions several times in the United States in the 1800’s and killed thousands.
Cholera
Was known for his coal business and his violent methods at the Homestead Steel Plant.
Henry Frick
Immigrants learned to speak English and adopt American dress and diet often referred to as doing this.
Americanization or Americanizing
This company was created by Morgan after buying a majority of the stocks from Edison.
General Electric
People who build and manage businesses or enterprises in order to make a profit
Entrepreneur(s)
Many American born people believed they were superior to immigrants and had a tendency towards preferring native-born white Americans over new immigrants is called this.
Nativism or Nativists
This man worked closely with George Westinghouse and created Alternating Current
Nikola Tesla
When People moved to live in cities over living in farmlands of the United States
Urbanization
This Car Monopoly had complete control over the cars patent, anyone who made a car had to pay them fees. They were defeated by Henry Ford in Court
ALAM