Progressive Era
The Progressive Movement led to the passing of many reforms suggested by this previous group.
What is the Populist Party?
The result of the Indian Wars was that Native Americans had to move here
What are reservations?
Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, led to this law being passed
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Industrialist who held a steel monopoly and believed in the Gospel of Wealth
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Name of apartment buildings where factory workers lived
What are tenements?
Name of the political party formed by Teddy Roosevelt in the election of 1912
What is the Bull Moose Party?
Movement of farmers to improve working class conditions
What is Populism?
Created income tax
What is the 16th amendment?
Created the Square Deal and supported the Progressive Movement
Groups that took control of government in a city through bribery and corruption
What is a political machine?
He busted more trusts than any other president
Who is William Taft?
Intended to assimilate Native Americans through boarding schools & introducing Native Americans to farming practices
What is the Dawes Act?
First federal law to regulate industry.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Believed in gradual equality for African Americans and investment into vocational training.
Who is Booker T Washington?
Many immigrants who did not assimilate lived in these
What are ethnic neighborhoods?
The government took this approach to economics during the Gilded Age?
What is laissez-faire?
Place where the transcontinental railroad was completed
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
This amendment is the only one to ever be overturned.
What is the 18th amendment?
Leader of the populists who supported bimetallism
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This man took photos of living conditions to show "How the Other Half Lives"
Who is Jacob Riis?
Industrialists defended their wealth through this logic
Law that gave land grants to railroad companies
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This act added onto and strengthened the original antitrust legislation of 1890
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
First billionaire industrialist
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Key labor strike where a bomb exploded, killing 7 and turning the public against labor unions
What is the Haymarket Riot/Affair?