Davis
1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business
Muckrakers
The exclusive right to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention
Patent
Giving favors or giving contracts in return for political support
Patronage
Work at an unskilled manual occupation
Labor
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests
Labor Union
Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
Laissez Faire
Industrialists gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages.
Robber Barons
(1890) a law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade
Sherman Antitrust Act
Process of making an area more city-like; the growth of cities and towns from villages
Urbanization
Living in companionship with others or in a community, rather than in isolation
Social
An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy
Ellis Island
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautions about change or advancement
Conservative
Economic or political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
Capitalism
U.S. 1870–98 greatly expanding economy and the power of the super rich
Gilded Age
Development of industry, business, and the economy
Industrialization
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors
Trust
Make changes in something to improve it
Reform
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests
Labor Union
The right to vote in political elections
Suffrage
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
Immigrant
The reason something happened
Cause
Something that is produced by a cause
Effect
Work at an unskilled manual occupation
Labor
To create something new
Invention
The exclusive possession or control of supply or trade in a service or good
Monopoly