Gilded Age

3. a business that consolidates the same type of business; this could lead to a monopoly.
6. the process of absorbing or becoming similar to the larger whole; Americanization.
8. Twain coined the phrase 'Gilded Age'
9. Immigration entry point for people from Asia.
11. economic system in which the means of production are communally held.
14. Immigration entry point for Europeans.
17. the growth of cities.
18. Jobs, social mobility, stable government.

1. a business model in which the company takes a raw material to finished product and the market.
2. anti-immigrant; focused on preserving native-born culture.
4. southern and eastern Europeans and Asians
5. a law that banned the practice of trust companies.
7. a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output that are prevalent in a society during a particular time.
10. America's pastime; sport.
12. first major immigration law to specify an ethnic group; laborers banned for 10 years.
13. War, famine, persecution, dictatorship, lack of jobs.
15. businessmen engaged in unethical dealings.
16. economic system in which the means of production are privately owned.