Gilded Age Word Scramble
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Bessemer Process | A cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850 |
Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869 |
Interstate Commerce Act | (1877) A law that established the federal government’s right to supervise railroad activities and created a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission to do so |
Social Darwinism | An economic and social philosophy—supposedly based on the biologist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection—that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest |
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) | A law that was intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trusts that interfered with free trade |
American Federation of Labor, 1886 | (AFL, Samuel Gompers) An alliance of trade and craft unions; used strikes as a major tactic |
Ellis Island | The chief immigration station in the United States from 1892 to 1924; located in New York Harbor |
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) | A law that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists and government officials from entering the United States |
Urbanization | The growth of cities Americanization Movement Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture |
Political Machine | An organized group that controls a political party in a city and offers services to voters and businesses in exchange for political and financial support |
Patronage | An officeholder’s power to appoint people—usually those who have helped him or her get elected to positions in government |
Gilded Age | The period from the 1870s - 1890s where industry and work was dominant |
Laissez-Faire | The belief that the government should stay out of business regulation |
Monopoly | A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller |
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