Gilded Age Terms
Powerful businesses that set their own terms for profit and usually control 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 to cities.
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 arrived at-
Ellis Island
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
The Telegraph
To fight for workers rights people did what?
strike
prohibited the sale of alcohol
18th amendment
sufferage
Ran the railroad business
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford introduced this to mass produce cars
the assembly line
Immigration has these two types of causes.
Push and Pull
granted women the right to vote
19th amendment