Gilded Age Vocabulary

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  1. 2. Organizations which emerged in American cities during the Gilded Age which controlled local politics through organized bribery and corruption.
  2. 3. This law was the first instance of federal legislation regulation on big business.
  3. 6. A more conservative union which sought to organize only white 'high-skilled professionals'.
  4. 8. An arrangement by which companies organize to maximize prices and profits within their industry.
  5. 9. This 'process' of making steel was enormously efficient, leading to an explosion of steel production.
  6. 12. The time period of the late-19th century in which industrialization led to the rise of powerful wealthy elites and various forms of social change and conflict.
  7. 13. A policy in which the government takes a hands-off approach to how businesses conduct themselves.
  8. 17. Organizations of workers that give them a collective voice in making demands and taking action to meet them.
  9. 18. He was the most powerful businessman in the railroad industry.
  10. 19. An economic model based on private ownership of the means of production and exchange.
  11. 20. The act of moving into a country to establish permanent residence.
  12. 21. He was a famous inventor whose inventions had direct dramatic impacts on Americans' quality of life.
  13. 22. An action taken by unions in which workers collectively agree to stop working until their demands are met.
  14. 23. When elected officials use their position to give gifts and favors in exchange for political support.
  15. 24. A more radical union which advocated for a revolution of workers of all races and professions to take control of industry.
  16. 25. The concept that industry should be under some form of collective control of workers and stakeholders, not just private owners.
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  1. 1. The first major nationwide labor union, from which other unions would organize.
  2. 4. A major immigration processing station established in New York.
  3. 5. He was the most powerful businessman in the oil industry.
  4. 7. This law was the first instance of federal legislation intended to directly challenge the power of monopoly capitalists.
  5. 10. An immigration processing station established in California.
  6. 11. A law which ended 'spoils' systems and established that appointments to public office must be based on merit, not as an exchange of favors.
  7. 14. The process of immigrants adopting the culture of their new country.
  8. 15. He was the most powerful businessman in the steel industry during the Gilded Age.
  9. 16. Hostility towards immigrants and foreigners, with the aim of preserving the existing local culture.