GILDED AGE – RISE OF BUSINESS
New South

Sharecroppers and Tenement Farmers

Transcontinental Railroad

Corporation

Monopoly

Trust

Laissez-faire



Free Enterprise System

Social Darwinism

Entrepreneurs

Robber Barons

OR

Philanthropists


Assembly Line


LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
Labor Unions

Collective Bargaining

Strike

Homestead Strike

Pullman Strike


URBANIZATION
Negative Effects
Tenements -
Political Machines -
Positive Effects
Employment –
Company towns –
Opportunities for Women –
Middle Class –
IMMIGRATION
Melting Pot Theory

Ghettos

Nativism

Know-Nothing Party

Limiting Immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act –
Gentlemen’s Agreement –
Emergency Quotas Act –