During the Gilded Age, industrialists got rich as the price of manufacturing products increased because products were handmade by skilled workers. increased because workers demanded and received high wages. decreased because skilled workers agreed to lower wages. decreased because more products were made rapidly by machines.

Decreased because more products were made rapidly by machines.

Product manufacturing became cheaper during the rise of industrialization, because machines allowed for a more efficient production (more products were made at a faster speed). In addition, there was a increase in the supply of workers that had moved to industrial areas to manufacture such products.