Economic Disparities
Almost a full percentage point of the nation's economic wealth belonged to these families.
Who are Rockefeller, Frick, Carnegie, and Baker?
Individuals who were corrupt and would use any means neccesary to get to the top.
What are Robber Barons?
This economic belief contributed directly to the initial creation of monopolies.
What is Laissez-Faire?
What is Bribery?
This was caused by the extreme supply of labor.
What is economic inequality?
The Gilded age caused the worse depression the nation had ever experienced.
What is the Panic of 1893.
Owners of many monopolies were believers in the idea of _____.
Government jobs would be given to these people.
What is a friend of someone in power?
Worker unions fought for such things like, better working conditions, less work hours, and ____.
What is higher pay?
Andrew Carnegie, though he once had endured this very same thing, payed his workers _____.
What is Low wages?
Many ____ were formed in the Guilded age, for monopolies caused workers to have poor working conditions.
This Guilded Age policy bennefited bank and bussiness owners.
What is "hard money"?
These were created to help solve some economic disparities between the business owners and their employees.
What are labor unions?
Many companies became big business through such means.
What are monopolistic practices?
This John D. Rockefeller owned business was an example of a monopoly.
What is Rockefeller' Standard Oil?
Tammany Hall distributed food and jobs to immigrants in exchange for this.
What are votes?
The economic system in our country that allowed the Gilded age to happen.
What is capitalism?
Big businesses dominated these regions of the economy.
What is a Robber Barron?
Many rich people donated this amount of money to services bennifeting the commonwealth.
What is zero dollars?