Vocabulary/Terms
Powerful businesses that set their own terms for profit and usually controlled that industry are called ________.
Monopolies
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 people from of farms (rural areas) to cities (urban areas).
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
Many immigrants worked these types of jobs
Factory jobs
What amendment granted tax collection powers to the government based on state populations?
16th Amendment
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 (the East) arrived at _________________ Island.
Ellis Island
This amendment made senators elected based on popular vote.
17th Amendment
A political process of making society better because of social and economic problems.
Progressivism
An investigative journalist that exposes corruption and big businesses
muckraker
This allowed communication through the use of morse code.
Telegraph
To fight for workers rights people did what?
strike
This amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Fighting for the right to vote.
Suffrage
This gentleman ran the railroad business.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford introduced this to mass produce cars.
Assembly Line
Immigration has these two types of causes.
Push and Pull
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment