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Gilded Age Problems

  • Tariff Policies

    Tariff Policies
    Taxes on imports or exports between foreign states. It is a form of regulation of foreign trade and a policy that taxes foreign products to encourage or safeguard domestic industry.
  • Tenement Housing

    Tenement Housing
    Tenements were built to house the waves of immigrants that arrived in the United States. They represented the primary form of urban working-class housing, with four apartments on each floor, most were all too often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation.
  • Monetary Policy

    Monetary Policy
    This contracted the amount of money being made, making money scarcer and thus driving up its purchasing power and worth over time.
  • Monopolies

    Monopolies
    Monopolies were not beneficial to the economy because they inflated prices, and hurt consumers by not letting them have any other competition. J.D Rockefeller used strategies like temporarily undercutting his competitors prices until they went out of business to become one of the most successful monopolies.