Robber Baron & Industry
What process involves purchasing companies at all stages of production to eliminate middleman costs
Vertical Integration
Known as the "Trust-Buster," which president introduced "The Square Deal" and created national parks like Yosemite and Yellowstone?
Theodore Roosevelt
What term describes the investigative journalists who exposed corporate corruption and social problems to stir public reform?
Muckrakers
Ratified in 1920, which amendment guaranteed women nationwide the right to vote?
The 19th Amendment
Patented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell, what invention allowed for instant voice communication over long distances?
The Telephone
Who acquired competing oil refineries to control 95% of the U.S. oil industry?
John D. Rockefeller
What 1906 law mandated federal inspection of meatpacking plants following outrage over Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
The Meat Inspection Act
Which photojournalist published How the Other Half Lives (1890) to expose the squalor of New York tenement slums?
Jacob Riis
Which 1913 amendment enabled citizens to directly elect U.S. Senators rather than state legislatures?
The 17th Amendment
What assembly process did Henry Ford use starting in 1908 to mass-produce affordable Model T automobiles?
The Assembly Line
Which industrialist authored the 1889 essay "The Gospel of Wealth"
Andrew Carnegie
Which Democratic president was elected in 1912 under his "New Freedom" platform, creating the Federal Reserve and Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
Woodrow Wilson
Who established Hull House in Chicago in 1889 to provide social services, education, and childcare to urban immigrants?
Jane Addams
Which 1919 amendment established Prohibition by banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol?
The 18th Amendment
What 1855 metallurgical innovation enabled cheap, mass production of steel from iron, powering skyscrapers and rails?
The Bessemer Process
Which financier bought out Carnegie Steel to form U.S. Steel and famously loaned gold to bail out the U.S. Treasury during an 1895 crisis?
J.P. Morgan
Who was Theodore Roosevelt's handpicked Republican successor who served as president from 1909 to 1913 before running against him in 1912?
William Howard Taft
Which muckraker published a famous exposé detailing the aggressive and unethical business practices of Standard Oil?
Ida Tarbell
Which 1913 amendment granted Congress the power to lay and collect a federal income tax?
The 16th Amendment
Which brothers achieved the world's first powered, controlled airplane flight in 1903 at Kill Devil Hills?
The Wright Brothers
What 1890 antitrust law intended to limit monopolies was paradoxically used by federal courts to end the 1894 Pullman Strike?
The Sherman Antitrust Act
Name the 3 Component's of the "Square Deal"
Conservation, Trust Busting, Consumer Protection
Which social reformer fought for child labor laws and improved workplace conditions for female factory workers?
Florence Kelley
What Progressive democratic reform allowed voters to remove an elected official from office before their term ended?
Recall
Who invented the telegraph and a code of dots and dashes in 1837, establishing instant wire communication alongside railroads?
Samuel Morse