Captains of Industries
Steel Tycoon.
Who is Carnegie?
I was the inventor of a new way to mass produce steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
The term "muckrakers" was used to describe
What are Journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices?
The word for people moving to the cities in large numbers.
What is "urbanization"?
The construction of this infrastructure project greatly boosted westward expansion.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Banking and financier of the Gilded Age.
Who is JP Morgan?
I wrote "how the other Half Lives" about poor conditions in the tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Wealthy industrialists who were criticized for their greedy business practices
What is a Robber Baron?
This era in U.S. history comes BEFORE the Gilded Age.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
This was the practice of awarding government jobs to supporters.
What was the spoils system?
Ran Standard Oil.
Who is Rockefeller?
Most notable labor organizer of the Gilded Age who founded the AFL.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
An organization form when workers join together to demand better pay and working conditions.
What is a Labor Union?
This was the time period typically considered to be the Gilded Age. (Give me the range of the two years)
What is from 1865-1900?
Name given to the wealthy industrialists and financiers who amassed great fortunes during the Gilded Age?
What are the Captains of Industry?
Built a railroad monopoly.
Who is Vanderbilt?
I coined the term the "Gilded Age".
Who is Mark Twain?
Describes the practice of merging competing companies in the same industry to form a single monopoly or trust during the Gilded Age.
What is horizontal integration?
During the Gilded Age, increased immigration to the United States from southern and eastern Europe led to this.
What are growing nativist sentiments (Anti-immigration feelings)?
Describe the concept of Social Darwinism.
What is the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are simply better "Survival of the Fittest"?
Used an assembly line and interchangeable parts to build cars.
Who is Ford?
This was the single powerful figure at the center who formed an organization to promote financial and social self-interest.
What are political bosses and political machines?
A term to reference the economic philosophy that emphasized minimal government intervention
What is Laissez-faire?
Describe the impact of urbanization during the Gilded Age.
What is a rapid increase in city populations also increased crime rates and disease to spread quickly. The rapid population growth also caused cities to grow in building size?
This describes the process by which corporations gained control over the production of goods from start to finish.
What is Vertical Integration?