The Gilded Age

2. the federal law that banned Chinese immigrants from coming to America
5. to become similar
6. men who built large industries
7. the process that allowed new immigrants to learn American ways by sending their children to school and by attending night classes to learn English
9. people who help out the poor with donations and money
11. industrialists who used ruthless strategies to build up their companies and abused their workers
12. the small apartments that had minimal sanitation and were usually rented by immigrant families
13. the individual that ran city politics by controlling how people voted
15. a businessman
18. an industrialist who started in the steel industry
19. the time period in American history when everything seemed to be progressing yet workers were suffering greatly
20. controlling a corporation by buying up all of the stocks
23. the group of people that helped the political boss by recruiting and controlling how people voted in the city
24. the sections of cities where people and immigrants of the same race and background lived together in order to survive

1. the policy that the US followed that let business owners run their businesses without any rules or regulations
3. the creation and growth of a city
4. the belief that people born in the US were superior to new immigrants
8. federal law controlling the railroad companies by outlawing unfair business practices
10. an organization or group of people who fought for the rights of workers
14. federal law that made it illegal for American corporations to form monopolies or trusts
16. an industrialist who began in the oil industry
17. people who moved to the US from southern and eastern Europe or Poland, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Russia
21. to cover in gold to make something look better that it is
22. a strategy used by industrialists where they gained total control of an industry