Define Capitalism
Economic or political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
What is produced by a cause?
Effect
What is labor?
Someone working as an unskilled employee at a manual occupation.
What did the Muckrakers search for?
Corruption in politics and big business.
What does suffrage give you the right to do?
What is it called for a reasoning that something occurred?
Cause
What do Conservatives believe in?
Keeping caution to any advancements or changes by keeping traditional attitudes and values.
What does it mean to invent something?
Create something new that no one has created before.
What does political mean?
Seeking power in the government.
Define trust
Group of corporations run by a single board of directors
What is the economy?
Wealth and resources that a country or region produces.
Do Immigrants move to another country permanently or temporarily?
Permanently
Define patent!
The right of an inventor to manufacture or sell an invention.
What does it mean to make a reform?
Make changes in something to improve it.
What does urbanization do?
Make an area more city-like.
What is industrialization?
The development of industries, businesses, and economies.
The belief that the government should play a small role in economic affairs is known as what?
Laissez Faire
The Gilded Age lasted from...
1870-1898
Define social
Living in companionship with others or in a community, rather than in isolation
Industrialists gained more profit by paying their employees extremely low wages
What was one goal that the Labor Union wanted to accomplish?
Protect and further the rights and interests of workers.
What did Ellis Island allow for immigrants?
Allowed immigrants to move into the country if they were found healthy after medical examinations.
Controls the supply or trade in a service or good.
What year was the Sherman Antitrust Act ratified?
1890
Random trivia question: What was Walt Disney's first character before Mickey Mouse?
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit