Gilded Age history
business became wealthy
Gilded age
method for manufacturing stronger, cheaper steel, used for railroad and bridges led to construction of taller buildings.
Bessemer steel process
made manufacturing more efficient electric lighting led to longer workdays and more production.
Electricity
Provided farmers and ranches with access to distant markets
Transcontinental Railroad
Total control of an industy by one company
Monopoly
members fought for better pay, safer working conditions, and end of child labo.
Labor unions
rapid growth of cities caused by the migration of people in search of industrial job.
Urbanization
controlled political parties, traded jobs/ community improvements for votes.
Political machines
move to the US for better economic opportunities some work in factories , others farmed.
Immigrants
viewed immigrants as competition for jobs
Nativists
passed to prevent immigrates from taking Americans job out west.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Resulted in rapid settlement of the great plains
Homestead act
Americans Indians were forced to adopt U.S culture through the use of boarding school, land ownership, and farming.
Assimilation