The Industrialists
Negative terminology used to describe wealthy businessmen of the Gilded Age as corrupt, exploitative, and greedy.
What are “robber barons?”
A company that complete dominates a particular industry, like dominating properties in the popular board game, is known as this
What is a monopoly?
These organizations were formed by workers in an effort to improve working conditions and wages.
What is a union?
The Pacific Ocean counterpart to Ellis Island, many Asian immigrants arriving in the United States were processed at this location.
What is Angel Island?
The invention of the incandescent lightbulb by Thomas Edison was instrumental in the rise and use of this…
What is electricity?
A term used to describe the charitable, honest, and hardworking side of wealthy Gilded Age businessmen.
What is a “captain of industry?”
This term is the process for buying out all competitors.
What is horizontal integration?
This was a common method of weapon used by labor unions when negotiations with business owners failed.
What is a strike?
An immigration term for an attraction that draws people to another place.
What is a pull factor?
Henry Ford’s use of this process in his automobile plants contributed greatly to the mass production and consumption of American society.
What is the assembly line?
Expanding by buying out and merging with other companies, Standard Oil achieved a monopoly on the market under this businessman.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This is the process of taking control of each step in an item’s production and distribution.
What is vertical integration?
Another term for replacement
worker, these laborers were
unpopular with other workers when
they were used to continue work
during organized strikes.
What is a scab?
An immigration term that involves problems that causes individuals to move away from their homeland.
What is a push factor?
Often controlling large cities, these groups were organizations that strived to get the money and influence that came with possessing political power.
What are political machines?
Author of The Gospel of Wealth, this steel tycoon, often considered a philanthropist, advocated the wealthy use their riches to benefit society.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This economic policy, which advocated for less government interference in business, helped industry boom in the Gilded Age.
What is laissez-faire economic policy?
Even though this organization had a Laissez Faire philosophy about regulations they often stepped in to help business owners stop strikes.
What is the Federal Government?
(They often sent federal troops in to restore order and get trains/factories moving again)
The influx of immigration to the cities caused rapid development of housing, often of poor quality and unsanitary/dangerous conditions, commonly referred to by this term…
What are tenements?
These leaders often took advantage of immigrants in need by exchanging economic aid for votes.
Who are political bosses?
The extreme wealth accumulated by some in the Gilded Age was justified by a philosophy of the time period that suggested the best-run businesses led by the most capable people will survive and rightfully prosper, known more concisely as this.
What is Social Darwinism?
This process allowed steel to be produced far more cheaply and quickly.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Which student at Laramie High school is the best because they are reviewing for upcoming MAS test?
You Are!
Contributing to immigration to the U.S., especially by Russian Jews, were organized anti-Jewish attacks called these…
What are pogroms?
This economic system came to dominate the U.S. as industry rapidly developed.
What is capitalism?