Gilded Age

WORD	DEFINITION	CONNECTION TO THE GILDED AGE
Gilded	Gold plated	The world was after money and gold plated is riches
Extreme	Reaching a high of the highest degree	Extreme wealth and extreme poverty during this time
Reform	To bring about change	A lot of changing during the gilded age from immigration to econmie
Industrialization	Develop in an industry	Industries ran the world and the richest owned the industry and more and more were popping up
Monopoly	the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service	The rich people controlled much of the trades and had lots of control
Labor	Work	Everybody was working
Immigration	coming to live permanently in a foreign country	Everyone was moving to America because they were told of new opprituntie
Urbanization	the process of making an area more urban	Everyone was making new towns and new cities

Part 2: Reformers - For each notable person in the Gilded Age, denote whether they were a true reformer, and how they impacted the US.

REFORMER	TRUE REFORMER?	IMPACT ON U.S.
Andrew Carnegie	yes	He dominated the steel industry
John Rockefeller	yes	Made the standard oil companies big
Cornelius Vanderbilt	Yes	Made a big version of transport with trains
Thomas Edison	Yes	Invented the Incandescent Light Bulb and the Phonograph
Edouard de Laboulaye	no	Proposed the idea of the Statut` of liberty
Mother Jones	Yes	She started strikes in many companies and better pay for the mill and industry workers
Your Choice: J p Morgan	Yes	Started Wall Street and a bigger version of money and how people saw it