- In the slums, workers lived in ________, or run-down apartment buildings that usually housed four families per floor in cramped, unsanitary, and dismal conditions.
- Give some examples of what made many laborers' working conditions a "hazardous environment":
- The division of society into unequal groups moved beyond race, and was increasingly based on differences in wealth and power, the lowest of the groups being the factory workers and laborers, who made up a new _______ class.
- The tragedy at the _________ Factory in New York City in 1911 helped bring attention to the need for better worker conditions and safety standards.
- Due to the influx of ________ in our country, employers had little trouble replacing any "disagreeable" workers.
- Why did many children of working-class families have to work as laborers?
- This wealthy industrialist started in the ferry business, but eventually invested heavily in ________, providing the first direct service from New York to Chicago (he also famously built many mansions throughout America!)
- Based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, this belief held that the best -run businesses would grow, survive, & prosper:
- Another competitive approach to limiting competition in an industry was to create _______, or a set of companies that are all managed together by a board of trustees.
- The company mentioned above quickly became a or a company that completely dominates an industry.
- In 1890 Congress finally passed the ________ which outlawed trusts and monopolies; however these new laws were weakly enforced.
- He wrote the book The Gilded Age, famously coining the term that would come to describe American society during this period, and how the "glittering" lives of the wealthy industrialists often contrasted with the political corruption and the squalor of the laborer's conditions:
- Giving much of his fortune to support education and libraries, he famously stated that "A man who dies rich dies disgraced":
- With less competition due to trusts and monopolies, many companies grew much larger, more powerful, and more profitable. Americans began to refer to these "industrial giants" as __________, which, in contrast to small, family-owned companies, were usually impersonal and heavily profit-driven.
- John ROckefeller formed his company, named:
- She was a cap factory worker who organized the workers, later becoming the leader of the Women's Trade Union League, a national labor organization:
- Leader in developing the Steel Industry into a major monopoly that effectively reshaped the American landscape:
- Due to his terrible reputation, Rockefeller became a ________, or a person who gives large amounts of money to support worthy causes.
- He earned a fortune in the oil industry using aggressive competitive approaches, such as bankrupting competing businesses:
- They made the first successful airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina: