Millionaires
This millionaire was emblematic of the Gilded Age because he was an immigrant, born poor, and became one of the richest men in America.
Andrew Carnegie.
The average workweek during the Gilded Age could be this long.
72 hours a week.
This defines monopolies.
One company controlling an industry.
This phrase sums up Darwin's theory of evolution.
Natural selection.
This factor led to a sharp increase in American population during the Gilded Age.
Immigration.
Carnegie's company produced the majority of the US's supply of this product.
Steel.
This was one of the many negative conditions of working in Gilded Age industry.
This describes horizontal integration.
Companies buying out their competition.
Social Darwinism can be defined in this way.
Applying Darwin's theory of evolution to humans.
A sharp increase in immigration in the United States during the Gilded Age led to the growth of this sector of the economy.
Industry/Factories.
Carnegie Steel put down a strike by their workers in this controversial event.
Homestead Strike.
Workers responded to oppression by their management by forming these.
Labor Unions.
This describes vertical integration.
Companies buying out their suppliers.
A Social Darwinist would hold this belief on government intervention in the economy.
Against.
Increased railroad mileage facilitated the growth of this other part of the American economy.
Manufacturing/Industry. Or urbanization, or population growth.
Andrew Carnegie believed the wealthy had this responsibility.
Give to charity (the poor)
This was a common demand of labor unions during the Gilded Age.
8 hour workday.
Besides Carnegie, these are three Gilded Age figures that became monopolists.
John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and JP Morgan.
The federal government passed this law in an attempt to end monopolies in American industry.
Sherman Antitrust Act.
This midwestern city experienced exponential growth during the Gilded Age.
Chicago.
Describe the metaphor at the core of the name for the "Gilded Age" (mention the literal facts and the metaphorical layer too)
Mark Twain meant that society was rotten at the core (the poor) but covered with gold (the rich)
This was a common tactic for labor unions to achieve their goals AND name one specific instance.
Strike: Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Ludlow Massacre.
(Not on test) This President would eventually become popular for "trust-busting" or forcing monopolies to break up.
Theodore Roosevelt.
The Sherman Antitrust Act failed for this primary reason.
It did not properly define trusts, so trusts could not be sued.
Gilded Age industrialization led to US dominance in the production of these two resources.
Iron/Steel & coal.