An agreement between competing firms to control prices of a product.

Exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices.

A trust is a financial arrangement that allows a third party, or trustee, to hold assets on behalf of a beneficiary or beneficiaries

Horizontal integration is where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike either complementary or competitive.

An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

The period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one.

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

An American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.

John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan was an American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.

An independent legal entity owned by shareholders

The first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.

Businessmen who used what were considered to be exploitative practices to amass their wealth. a negative term.

A band of workers with similar jobs and problems that come together for a certain cause.

American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb

invented the telegraph

English engineer, inventor, and businessman. His process of making stronger steel lead to the manufacturing of many new industries including the Railroad and skyscrapers.

the influence the United States has on the culture of other countries, one way that this was spread was through schools

A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments that was owned/rented usually by poor factory workers

Very unhealthy and small living conditions. Very unsanitary.

A business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way.

rebuilding after the Civil War; readmitting the Confederate states to the Union

Abolished Slavery

A white supremacist organization that often lynched blacks

establishments that helped immigrants find their footing

steelplant of Carnegie and Frick cut wages 20%, stirke insues Pinkertons called in

Faced low wages and long hours along with unsafe working conditions

Original intent was to put limits on large corporations but early on used against unions

Invention that helped allow the building of skyscrapers

Farmers moved to urban areas thus less farmers

leader of the American Federation of Labor

ownership of businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process. Carnegie used generally expensive to do.

set up to oversee big railroad companies

Tax placed on imported items to protect a country's industries from foreign competition

Started in shipping and then went to railroads

the act of buying and using products to make a statement about social standing. Generally comes about when you have extra money.

A demonstration of striking laborers in Chicago in 1886 that turned violent, killing a dozen people and injuring over a hundred. Anarchists were thought to be behind it.

Union that limited its membership to skilled workers only

Rapid growth of cities

blended nationalities that create single culture

belief rooted in hatred and fear of immigrants

Inventor of modern elevator

Educational Reformer that raised literacy rates

Wrote books that showed how the poor could do well in America through hardwork

designed urban parks and was a city planner

Newspapers helped created this across America during this time period along with advertising

Charitable donation to public causes that major industrialists did during this time period especially Carnegie

This was a book written by Carnegie that described the responsibility of the rich to be philanthropists. This softened the harshness of Social Darwinism as well as promoted the idea of philanthropy.

An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892, where immigrants were given a medical examination and only allowed in if they were healthy. Where most European immigrants were processed

The immigration station on the west coast where Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese gained admission to the U.S. at San Francisco Bay. Between 1910 and 1940 50k Chinese immigrants entered through Angel Island. Questioning and conditions at Angel Island were much harsher than Ellis Island in New York.

United States writer and humorist that gave us the term "Gilded Age"

A leading newspaperman of his times, he ran The New York Morning Journal. Paper wrote sensationalized articles.

Which group of people made up the majority of immigrants to America before 1870?

Factors that induce people to move to a new location.

a factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region

reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s.

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Least likely to encounter prejudice during this time period