Big Business & Industrialization
This steel tycoon used vertical integration to control every step of steel production.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
These immigrants built much of the western section of the transcontinental railroad.
Who were the Chinese immigrants?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What was the 13th Amendment?
This idea argued that wealthy Americans should use their fortunes to improve society.
What was the Gospel of Wealth?
This agreement ended Reconstruction in 1877.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This oil businessman used horizontal integration to dominate the oil industry.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This violent 1877 strike spread nationwide after railroad wage cuts.
What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What was the 14th Amendment?
These reformers promoted prohibition and social reform during the late 1800s.
Who were the WCTU, Frances Willard, and Carrie Nation?
This act created a merit-based civil service system to reduce the spoils system.
What was the Pendleton Act of 1883?
This philosophy claimed that wealthy and powerful people succeeded because they were naturally superior.
(DOUBLE POINTS) What was Social Darwinism?
These crowded urban housing structures became common in industrial cities.
What were tenements?
This amendment protected voting rights for African American men.
What was the 15th Amendment?
These settlement house reformers helped immigrants and the urban poor through places like Hull House.
Who were Jane Addams and Florence Kelley?
This political cartoonist helped expose the corruption of Boss Tweed.
Who was Thomas Nast?
This 1890 law attempted to limit monopolies and trusts.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1882 law banned most Chinese immigration to the United States.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These southern laws restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.
What were the Black Codes?
This African American leader promoted vocational education and gradual economic advancement.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
This idealized image represented the modern American woman of the late 1800s.
What was the “Gibson Girl”?
This economic policy favored big business by limiting government regulation.
What was laissez-faire?
This Chicago labor protest became linked to radicalism and demands for an eight-hour workday.
What was the Haymarket Square Riot?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This African American activist demanded immediate civil rights and higher education opportunities.
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
This political party supported farmers and workers through reforms like free silver and railroad regulation.
What was the Populist Party?