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Industrialization, Big Business, and Immigration WorksheetName: _____________________________________ Period: __________ Date: ____________Why did mark Twain call this period the “Gilded Ages”?What three factors contributed to American Industrialization?What did capitalism in the US encourage?Name two inventions that transformed American life, transportation, or production.What was the Bessemer Process? How did it impact American architecture?What are 2 pros and 2 cons of Industrialization of the US?What is a trust?Name 3 “Robber Barons” who grew to great wealth during the Gilded Ages. In what industry did they gain their wealth?“Rockefeller killed its rivals, in brief, by getting the great trunk lines to refuse to give them transportation. Vanderbilt is reported to have said that there was but one man- Rockefeller- who could dictate to him.”H.D. Lloyd, The Atlantic, 1881According to this quote above, what did Rockefeller gain on the oil industry?What is the idea of Social Darwinism?Explain Andrew Carnegie’s idea in “The Gospel of Wealth”.Why did many immigrants come to America? Where many of them from during the Gilded Ages?What two places were most immigrants processed once arriving to the US?What idea do you think this political cartoon is supporting? Why?What is urbanization?“Go into any of the ‘respectable’ tenement neighborhoods… you shall come away agreeing that… life there does not seem worth living… The airshaft… seems always so busy letting out foul stenches… that it has not time to earn its name bringing down fresh air”Jacob Riis, How the Other Half LivesWhere did most immigrants live after arriving to the US?According to the above quote, what was the problem with where they lived?Why do people debate whether or not the great industrial leaders of the Gilded Age are “Robber Barons’ or “Captains of Industry”? ................
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