Ss 8th Flashcards
(29 cards)
Gilded
To be covered in a thin layer of gold paint
Progressive
Time for a change
Immigration
The action of coming to live permanently
Urbanization
Process of making an area more like a big city
Industrialization
A period of time when the country’s economy begins to turn raw materials into products
Suffrage
The right to vote in a political election
Enfranchise
To give the right to vote and participate in political life
Muckrakers
A journalist who exposes corruption
Free market
And economy based on supply and demand with no government restrictions
Monopolies
When one company controls are owns the whole market total control
Trusts
A group of separate companies placed under the control of single managing board
Captain of industry
A business leader who’s means of making money contributed positively to the country
Robber baron
A business leader using political means to achieve personal wealth
Laissez fair
Governments not interfering with free market
Thomas Edison
Perfected the modern day lightbulb, phonograph, invented starter for automobiles that illuminates handcrank doing on my
Who was an activist for women’s sufferage
Jane Adams
Who used photography as a way to encourage social reform
Jacob Riis
Who was the founder of the Ford motor company and developed the assembly line technique for mass production
Henry Ford
Who was a big business tycoon in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Who was a big business tycoon in the railroad industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who was a big business tycoon in the oil industry
John D Rockefeller
Who was a big business tycoon in the banking business
JP Morgan
Who played a major role in the Carnegie steel company
Henry Frick
Who was a writer of books with the topics of social protest
Upton Sinclair
