Industry
A railroad magnate, and considered to be one of the 'robber barons' of the Golden Age, who is not J.P. Morgan.
Who is Jay Gould?
The way in which most farmers responded to drops in crop price to attempt to make up for lost wages.
What is increased production?
The 1890 act that sought to restore economic competition and reasonable prices by breaking up monopolies and cartels.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The term used to describe individuals rushing to banks to withdraw money and causing banks to default.
What is a run on banks?
A revolutionary communication technology developed in the late 19th century.
What is the telephone/ telegraph?
The constitutional amendment that established the U.S.'s first federal income tax for the purpose of bettering society through increased infrastructure and welfare.
What is the 16th amendment?
The president who became a primary figurehead of the progressive movement, also known as the "Trust Buster".
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
One of two progressive women who protested racial injustice and played a significant role in the establishment of the NAACP.
Who are Lillian Ward & Mary White Ovington?
The battle in which U.S. soldiers killed scores of innocent Natives after an accidental rifle discharge in 1890.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The name of the act in which the U.S. government attempted to assimilate and Americanize indigenous peoples through the use of boarding schools.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
Date of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is December 7, 1941?
The name given for a second wave of innovations that transformed the economies and societies of Western nations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is the second Industrial Revolution?
An event in 1893 that caused an economic downturn in the United States.
What is the Panic of 1893?
A book/ pamphlet written by Andrew Carnegie in which he argued it was moral obligation of individuals to pursue wealth for the betterment of society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
The name of the 19th century political party that advocated for the use of printed money as currency rather than gold or silver.
What is the Greenback Party?
The dam that, when set up, helped to jumpstart the city of Phoenix.
What is Roosevelt Dam?
Likely everyone's favorite example of a political boss in the late 19th century.
Who is Boss Tweed?
Identify one of the three main unions we discussed that formed in the 1860s.
What are/is National Labor Union or Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor?
The amendment to the constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Name any two groups of immigrants that were seen to 'flood' U.S. cities in the late 19th century.
Irish, Jewish, E. European, S.E. European
The name given to the unique cultural and artistic movement of Black Americans in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The name of the treaty that was supposed to settle international disputes following WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A highly successful banker who bought out many railroad companies between 1893 and 1897 - successfully maintaining and regulating these companies? (not Jay Gould)
Who is J.P. Morgan?
A company that controls an entire industry and its prices by eliminating competition.
What is a monopoly?
Two (both) of the people most frequently credited with codifying the ideas of communism.
Who are Marx and Engles?
The name given to the day the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday?
The name given to a progressive who wanted to leave nature essentially untouched.
What is a preservationist?
The amendment in which Congressional Senators were selected by popular vote at the state level.
What is the 17th Amendment?
A collective group of farmers that successfully procured discounts on farm machinery, set a max price on grain storage, and utilized a cash-only storage policy fee that was free of financing and price swindling
What is the Grange?
The feminist movement that mostly focused on securing the right for women to vote.
What is First-Wave feminism?
A term used to describe a location or area inhabited by a common ethnicity that is surrounded by different cultures and/or ethnicities.
What is an enclave?
The movement of primarily black southerners to northern cities in the 1920s and 1930s
What is the Great Migration?
The concept advocated by Woodrow Wilson that held individuals of similar ethnicity should have the right to choose their own leaders, borders, economy, and government without imperial interferences.
What is self-determination?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What is Marxism or Communism?
According to Marxist theorists, this is the source of conflict between the classes.
What is private property/ the means of production.
The economist who advocated for deficit spending in order to regulate the economy preventing significant problems such as the Great Depression.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
The name given to progressives who wished to maintain nature efficiently to maximise human use without exhausting resources.
What is a conservationist?
The name used to describe an informal political group or party that supports individuals elected to office by listening to constituents and lobbying on their behalf - often with great personal gain.
What is a political machine?
An 1877 supreme court case that set a maximum price on grain storage.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
A liberal that is motivated by individual liberty, but is also concerned with proportional fairness and free-market economics.
What is a classical liberal?
Name one of the two primary reasons Nativists opposed increased immigration.
1. protection of wages and jobs
2. preservation of white/western/protestant culture
The name for the wave of anti-communist paranoia that swept over the united states in the 1910s-1920s
What is the Red Scare?
The name given to the communist revolution in Russia in 1917.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
The term used to describe organizing all labor and each step of the production process to be centrally located.
What is the factory system?
The term used to describe a collusive alliance between political leaders and businessmen in which politicians accept bribes in return for other financial favors or contracts.
What is crony capitalism?
One of the two cornerstone texts created by the 'founders' of communist thought.
What is the Communist Manifesto or Das Kapital?
Name any TWO major monopolies of the late 19th century.
Standard Oil, Carnegie Steel Co., Union Pacific Railroad
A method of manufacturing often attributed to Henry Ford that revolutionized the way goods were created.
What is the production line?
This is the organization set up for the purpose of regulating, inspecting, and monitoring the health practices of the food industry in 1906.
What is the F.D.A.?
The name of the late-19th century political party that attempted to improve the situation for farmers. (Aso the last major organized political effort acting solely on the behalf of farmers.)
What is the Populist Party?
The feminist movement that mostly pursued equal opportunity in economic, social, and political life.
What is Second-Wave Feminism?
The name of the last treaty formed by the U.S. government with Native American tribes that attempted to protect the Sioux in the West Dakota region.
What is the Fort Laramie Treaty?
This early-20th century movement that advocated the improvement of the human gene pool through controlled reproduction and even sterilization of 'defective' individuals.
What is the eugenics movement?
The estimated total deaths in World War II.
What is 75-85 Million?
Any one of two possible examples in which the US military forcefully returned striking workers back to labor to ensure the economy remained undamaged.
What are/is the Homstead Steel Strike or the Pullman Strike?
What is overproduction/ technology creating surplus?
The name given to the social theory that applied the evolutionary concept of natural selection that stipulated the rich and powerful were justified in their exploitation of the poor or 'uncivilized'
What is social Darwinism?
The term used to describe individuals borrowing money to buy stocks.
What is margin buying?
The amendment that banned the sale, production, and consumption of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
A liberal who is motivated primarily by individual liberty, as well as in providing aid, care, and concern for the perceivable needy and marginalized.
What is a progressive liberal?
The name of the spiritual exercise and gathering in which many Sioux and Plains Natives attempted to revitalize and maintain their traditional buffalo based lifestyle.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
The act that passed to effectively banned all immigration from Asia and set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere.
What is the immigration act of 1924?
A group of companies that control an industry and its prices by eliminating competition.
What is a cartel?
The amendment that undid the 18th amendment.
What is the 21st amendment?
The term used to describe undercover journalists who sought to expose corruption (particularly during the progressive era).
What are muckrakers?