Vocabulary Gilded Age (TLRE)

System in which private business is allowed to operate and expand their business with little or no government control

El gobierno no interfiere en sus negocios.

• Political Machines

• Free Enterprise

• Entrepreneur

• Businessmen

A term referring to living in the country rather than in a town-- Prior to 1870’s the majority of the people in the rural areas of the U.S.

• cities

• urban

• rural

• old country

Match the following

• Social

• 
• rural

• 
• urban

• 
• Political

• 
• Political Boss

• 

Reform that required government jobs to be granted on merit NOT political favors--established by the Pendleton Act

probar es mejor que dar favor

• Civil Service

• STAAR

• District

• Favors

A family’s parcel of land and home where they settled. Example--Homestead Act of 1862 during the Civil War gave 160 acres of land out west in exchange for promising to cultivate or farm the land for five years

• Pendleton Act

• Homestead Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

A term referring to living in a town rather than the country. 11 million people moved to urban areas from 1870 to 1920. By 1920 more people lived in urban areas than the rural areas of the United States.

• Transportation

• Urban

• Rural

• Towns

person's qualities, actions, etc. regarded as indicating what the person deserves to receive

basado en los mejores calificados no favores

• merit

• rewards

• quality

• promotion

What does Gilded mean?

• Gold (oro)

• Silver (plata)

• Bronze (Bronze)