LT 2.1 - Industrialist
wealthy industrialists who were accused of using unethical or exploitative business practices to build their fortunes.
What is a Robber Baron
These immigrants arrived in the United States primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe during the late 1800s and early 1900s, including Italians, Poles, and Russians.
What is New Immigrants
During the Industrial Revolution, these jobs drew millions of workers into cities, where they often faced long hours, low wages, and dangerous working conditions.
These journalists investigated corruption, unsafe working conditions, and other social problems in an effort to expose them to the public.
What is Muckraker
This president became known for using the presidency to challenge large corporations and was nicknamed the “trust-buster.”
Who was Theodore Roosevelt
These organized groups of workers fought for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions.
What is Labor Unions
This group favored native-born Americans and opposed immigration, often arguing that immigrants threatened American jobs, culture, and society.
What is Nativist?
This mass-produced building material made it possible to construct taller skyscrapers, bridges, and other structures that allowed cities to expand vertically.
What is Steel
This author’s 1906 novel The Jungle exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and helped inspire federal food and drug regulations.
Who is Upton Sinclair
This 1894 strike by railroad workers was broken up by federal troops after disrupting railroad traffic across the country.
What was the Pullman Strike
This theory of natural selection to human society, arguing that the wealthy and successful were naturally superior.
What is Social Darwinism
This process involved immigrants adopting the language, customs, and culture of their new country in order to become more like the society around them.
What is Assimilation
These crowded urban apartment buildings often had poor ventilation, little sanitation, and many families living in small spaces.
What are Tenements
After this tragedy highlighted the need for stronger workplace safety regulations, fire emergency procedures, and became a major example of Progressive reform.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
This organization was founded in 1886 and became one of the first major national labor unions open to both skilled and unskilled workers.
This economic policy favored little to no government interference in business and the economy.
What is Lassiez-Faire
Founded by Jane Addams in Chicago, this organization provided education, childcare, healthcare, and other services to help poor urban communities.
What are Hull Houses/Settlement Houses
This muckraker used photographs and writing to expose the harsh living conditions of poor immigrants in New York City.
Who is Jacob Riis
Theodore Roosevelt described his domestic reform program using these three goals in his Square Deal
What are 3Cs
Conservationism, Consumer Protection and Control of Cooperations
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
Emma Lazarus’s - The New Colossus
This poem was engraved on this famous landmark, which became a symbol of immigration to the United States.
Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island New York City
According to Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth, wealthy people had a responsibility to use their money to improve society rather than leave it to their children. This practice is known as what?
What is Philanthropy?
Passed in 1882, this federal law banned a specific group of immigrants from entering the United States and prevented those already in the country from becoming citizens.
What is Chinese Exclusion Act
This 1890 book used photographs and firsthand observations to reveal the overcrowded and impoverished living conditions of New York City’s poorest residents.
What is "How the Other Half Lived"
Originally passed in 1890, this federal law gave the government a legal tool to challenge monopolies and business combinations that restrained competition.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Passed in 1906, this law required truth in labeling and helped protect consumers from unsafe or falsely advertised food and medicines.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act