Gilded Age Terms
It meant "hands off" and that govt would stay out of businesses.
Laissez-faire
This person was an entrepreneur concerned with oil.
Rockefeller
This invention extended the working hours.
The Lightbulb
These were terrible apartment buildings
Tenements
Formed to improve working conditions of corporate employees
Labor Unions
The movement of rural farms to cities.
Urbanization
This man ran the steel industry and was known to give donations to many people.
Andrew Carnegie
This connected the country from New York to California in 1869.
Transcontinental Railroad
This broke up monopolies and prevents them from controlling industries.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
In 1862 this law allowed settlers to own 160 acres of land for free if they lived on the land and improved it.
Homestead Act
This term is another way to say "Monopoly"
Trust
This man ran the banking industry in the Gilded Age
J.P. Morgan
This man invented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
immigrants who came from Europe arrived at-
Ellis Island
This was the first anti-immigrant Law
The Chinese Exclusion Act
This word defines the Gilded Age
Corruption/broken
This terms refers to someone who is anti-immigrant
Nativist
This allowed communication through the use of morse code
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory famous for?
Burning Down
Who was the Interstate Commerce Act designed to protect from the Railroads.
Farmers
An economic system that allows individuals to have freedom in the economy
Free Enterprise
This man ran Tamany Hall in NY and took many bribes.
Willaim "Boss" Tweed
This invention allowed for easier/faster creation of steel
Bessemer Steel Process
Immigration has these two types of causes.
Push and Pull
This law was meant to force the Native Americans to assimilate.
Dawes Act