Just Business
These laws that create new standards or rules for people or businesses were not present during the Gilded Age.
Regulations
This word means to donate time or money in order to give back or contribute to society.
Philanthropy
This innovation made traveling across the US quicker, safer, and more comfortable.
The Transcontinental railroad.
This innovation allowed businesses and factories to stay open later.
The lightbulb
Over time the US population shifted from ______ to ______
Rural to Urban
Businesses in the Gilded Age wanted to avoid competition in the market, so they began to merge or acquire companies become this.
A monopoly
These organizations like Jane Adam's Hull House were created to serve the less fortunate by offering different resources and being a community center for the people.
Settlement Houses
In the 1840's and 1890's many Americans hurried to settle in the west to search for this?
California (1848-1855) and Klondike (1896-1899) Gold Rush
This innovation allowed for people to directly communicate with each other instantly and created many new jobs.
The Telephone
Over Time the US economy shifted from ______ to ______
Agricultual to Industrial
In order to maximize profits big businesses had few workers protections, cut wages, and held workers in company towns leading to this
Strikes / Labor movement
These organizations would offer services and help to immigrants and poor people as bribes for their vote in the next election.
Political machine / Boss
Urbanization
This innovation made land in the west more profitable and attractive to farmers and helped create more food with less work.
Tractors and Plows
Over the Gilded Age the Government shifted from ______ to ______ to combat the many needs of Americans
Conservative to Progrssive
Owning all materials and Manufacuring needed to produce a product or merging with competitors to increase a company's size are methods that allow corporations to create large monopiles and control prices know as this
Horizontal and Vertical Intergration
This was a technique used by political bosses to steal tax payer money. It often involved overpaying for work done in the city and splitting the extra money with the companies he hired.
Graft / Corruption
This law enacted in 1862 was meant to incentives settlers and businesses to move westward and create new towns and cities.
The homestead act of 1862.
This key innovation helped produce this material in much large quantities and lower prices.
The Bessemer Steel process
After hiring many Immigrants for jobs in the US many Americans turned to these policies. Ultimately creating laws like the Chinese exclusion act and Immigration quotas
Nativist
The Pendleton act increased the number of federal positions that were filled by a completive examination instead of appointments in order to combat this type of political corruption.
Patronage / Soils System
This political principal meant the government was not responsible for regulating social life or business. This allowed for greater freedoms and increased discrimination.
Laissez-Faire
As the US expanded Westward and fought in plains wars with various Native Nations, these became the new homes of many Native American people.
Reservations
This economic innovation allowed for the creation of huge corporations that could monopolize an industry and control prices.
Horizontal and Vertical Intergration
This policy help create programs and institutions designed to introduce immigrants to American culture and help them adjust and leave their old culture behind.
Assimilation