Gilded Age Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Gilded Age | The time when only a handful of Americans became rich, but portrayed the US as being covered in gold. |
Transcontinental | stretching across a continent; from coast to coast |
Entrepreneurs | Businessmen willing to take risks by investing in, or buying a new business |
Monopoly | A company that has total control of an industry |
Mass Production | manufacturing goods in large quantities with the help of machines |
New South | the southern states after Reconstruction that emphasized factories and cities, as well as farms |
Mill Towns | Unhealthy places built by companies to house their workers |
Bourbons | Another name for the democrats that followed Wade Hampton |
Disenfranchising | Depriving someone of the right to vote |
Eight Box Law | A way to disenfranchise black voters who could not read; Required voters to place their vote in the correct box. |
Grandfather Clause | Made it possible for illiterate white males to vote if their grandfather voted in the 1860 election. |
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