Wonderfulness 1
Economic or political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Capitalism
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
Work at an unskilled manual occupation.
Labor
The exclusive right to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention.
Patent
Industrialists gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages.
Robber Barons
The reason something happened.
cause
U.S. 1870–98 greatly expanding economy and the power of the super rich.
Gilded Age
An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.
Labor Union
Giving favors or giving contracts in return for political support.
Patronage
(1890) a law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade.
Sherman
Antitrust Act
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautions about change or advancement.
Conservative
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
Immigrant
Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
Laissez Faire
Seeking power in the government.
Political
An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages.
Unions
Wealth and resources of a country or region in terms of production and consumption of goods and services
Economy
Development of industry, business, and the economy.
Industrialization
The exclusive possession or control of supply or trade in a service or good.
Monoploy
Favoring or promoting change, modernization, and transformation.
Progressive
A group of corporations run by a single board of directors.
Trust
Something that is produced by a cause.
Effect
To create something new.
Invention
1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business.
Muckrakers
Make changes in something to improve it.
Reform
The right to vote in political elections.
suffrage