The late 19th century U. S. economy was dominated by the Gilded Age industrialists. Laborers struggled to find their own economic independence while working for wages in the factories of the men who built America . The following assignment asks you to write a short story using one of the two following stems as a starter. Use AT LEAST the vocabulary terms in the box below in your story. John Rockefeller; Andrew Carnegie; J. P. Morgan; Cornelius Vanderbilt; Social Darwinism ; labor union; oil; steel; tenement ; strike; riot; political machine ; immigrant; nativists , urbanization ; trust ; monopoly; government regulation; suffrage; robber baron; captain of industry