Gilded Age

Laissez faire

Laissez faire

________- a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering, hands off.

Tammany Hall

________ was a political machines that was used to gain power.

Social Darwinism

________- theory that people are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals.

Compeition

________ regulates price and quality.

Boycott

________- Workers and general public refuse to purchase products and services of a company.

Strike

________- ​​Employees refuse to work until their demands are met.

Boss

________ controlled jobs, business licenses, and influenced court systems.

Bessemer process

________ was a method of making cheap steel.

foreign competition

Farmers in the movement wanted action against monopolistic railroads that charged high rates for transporting farmers crops, bad weather, ________ drives down price, high tariffs and high cost of farm machinery.

third party

Trusts- an arrangement that allows a(n) ________ to hold assets (financial corporation)

Liberal republican party

________ formed because they wanted purification of washington administration and end to military construction.

Garfield

________ was a part of the Half- Breed faction of the Republican Party.

Gov

________ at all levels saw itself as a provider of essential services such as roads and as an advocate of justice but not as responsible for the welfare of individuals.

Horizontal integration

________- when a business grows by purchasing related businesses, namely its competitors.

Vertical integration

________- when a business takes control of all the stages in production or distribution thereby owning all parts of the industrial process.

Company Towns

________- a place where all stores and housing are owned by one company that is the main employer.

William Tweed

________ was the head of Tammany Hall, NYs democratic political machine.