Gilded Age

Identify the factors that would help a nation industrialize

raw materials, modes of transportation, and industrious workers (immigrants).

Select the answer that would not help a nation become a potential world power:

isolationist policies

An example of vertical integration would be a corporation

owning cotton plantations and textile mills

Complete control over a supply of goods in a service or certain area of a market

Monopoly

A cheap and inexpensive way to make steel:

Bessemer Process

One of the most well-known inventors.  Light bulb & phonograph-

Thomas Edison

Industrialist that made Standard Oil Co.  Best example of horizontal integration-

John D. Rockefeller

First to introduce method of making steel inexpensive and in mass quantities-

Henry Bessemer

His assassination prompted the creation of the Civil Service Act of 1883-

James Garfield

Created the "Tin Lizzy"- and Americans no longer needed horses.  Assembly line process-

Henry Ford

Inventor of the telephone, created one of the largest and longest running telecommunications companies-

Alexander Graham Bell

Tycoon who wrote "Gospel of Wealth", those who are wealthy should contribute to worthy human causes-

Andrew Carnegie

The Civil Service Act was designed to clean up government by:

giving government jobs only to people who passed a competitive exam

Riot that turned deadly when 7 police officers and 4 civilians were killed.  Protesting the deaths of workers.  Following this the Knights of Labor and responsible anarchists were linked in the public eye.

The Haymarket Affair

One goal of the Knights of Labor was:

Equal pay for men and women

Immigrants were frequently hired during the Industrial Revolution because:

They were cheap labor

He was president twice, but not consecutively during the Gilded Age.

Grover Clevelan

Term synonymous with agriculture-

Agrarian

Donating large amounts of $ to charitable institutions to benefit society as a whole

philanthropy

Creates/acquires production units that are alike, used to create a monopoly

Horizontal Integration

Growing enough food just to survive

subsistence farming

Gov't intervention can be utilized to promote economic & social change for the better

Progressivism

the strongest survive & thrive- justifies gap between rich & poor

Social Darwinism

Controlling multiple steps of supply chain, eliminates buying/selling within production cycle

Vertical Integration

Government policy of non-interference with business

laissez-faire economics

Period from 1870s-early 1900s in America.  It was an era of rapid economic growth, but also social conflict.  America looked great on the outside, but had many conflicts and concerns on the inside

Gilded Age

He was a muckraking journalist whose work with photography exposed social ills in New York City.  Wrote "How the Other Half Lives".

Jacob Riis

This law was designed to regulate state-to-state trade and deal with problems of bribery and other issues.

interstate Commerce Act

Organized labor unions that allowed men, women, blacks, and immigrants in.  Fought for an 8-hour work day and improved safety conditions.

Knights of Labor

This law made monopolies illegal and was created to deal with big businesses getting bigger.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

This concept of investigative journalism focuses on exposing social ills.  Sometimes journalists would have to go undercover in order to investigate.

Muckraking

Identify the issues that workers faced during the Industrial Revolution (check all that apply):

long hours and low pay, poor working conditions, and no rights as workers