Essay On Urbanization In The Gilded Age

A person who takes risk to start his/her own company or business. An entrepreneur assumes all risk in starting that business but at the same time, will assume all profit.
Many entrepreneurs in the Gilded Age started large industrial companies that dominated that market and amassed massive wealth.
Industrialization is a process where a country becomes economically powered and manufacture-based.
Industrialization helped to develop the United States into a manufacture-based society instead of an agriculture-based one. It caused urbanization.
The movement of large groups of people migrating into a small geographical area within the United States during the late 1800’s.
Urbanization caused overcrowding in small areas; high competition, unsanitary conditions, crime rate rise, and

pollution are symptoms of this.
Nativism is a policy in the United States that protects the interest established or native-born inhabitants against immigrants. It got its name from the “Native American” parties, and has made a big impact within 19th century politics.
Happening within the United States, the idea of anti-immigration has a long history. It has a big part in politics within the United States because of the large amounts of immigrants coming in from cultures that also greatly contrasted America’s culture, angering the citizens there.
A political organization in which a boss or small group holds authority over a political candidate (or a group of politicians) to make sure they get elected. They have developed in the United States during the early 19th century.
Politicians before a campaign often host fundraisers which are designed specifically to 'feed/fuel' the machines. When a leading politician struggles on the road to getting elected his/her machine may collapse underneath her/him. 'Well-oiled' political machines are deemed necessary to improve candidates' chances at becoming elected to office.
The theory that persons, groups, and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature. It was popular within the time rate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
According to this theory, the weak would be diminished and their cultures delimited, while the stronger few grew in power and in cultural influence over those who were weak. It held the idea that the life of people within society was a “struggle for existence” ruled by “survival of the fittest,”
A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. These are normally found in the U.S. cities during the 19th century because that is the time where most immigrants begin to file in.
These tenements were occupied generally by immigrants looking for life in the cities.

Often, these immigrants had to look for a well-paying job and fast because the owners of these tenements ask for big sums during their stay.
A factory or workshop where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long labor hours and under poor conditions. These are mostly found within the cities of the United States around the time of the 19th century.
This is a huge symptom of the Gilded Age for the United States; where the country becomes industrialized and moves away from becoming agriculture-based.
An organization of workers assembled to promote collective bargaining with employers over hours, wages, job security, and working conditions. These were mostly formed during the Gilded Age, in the time that the United States became industrialized.
These mostly attack sweatshops, which employs workers with low payment and long labour hours in an unhealthy work environment.
To search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics. Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt, president of the United States from 1901-1908, nicknamed these investigative journalists

muckrakers.

Muckrakers targeted many injustices brought on by the large increase of immigrants, the rapid growth of the cities, unregulated big business and the influence of political machines, as well as many other social problems.
A person advocating progress, change or improvement as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters.
The progressive movement occurred in response to the Second Industrial Revolution that drove wages down, worsened the work environment, forced immigrants into tenements, and dragged women and children into the factory to work.
A theory or system that the U.S. Government should have little to none interference in the direction of economic affairs. The French word of literally “allow to do”.
In the Gilded Age, this meant that businesses, however they chose to run, were not tampered or restricted by the Government. This permitted the long hours of work without good pay, unhealthy work conditions, etc.
A fair bargain or deal; also the name given to Theodore Roosevelt’s platform, as a representation of his vow that he would look to the favor of all Americans, not specific groups.
In the Gilded Age, Roosevelt defended the right for businesses to organize labor, and even used the help of federal troops to put down strikes. However, he also worked to restrict big businesses by breaking up a monopoly.