Causes of industrialization
This abundant natural resource fuels factories, railroads, and seal production in the late 1800.
What is coal?
John D Rockefeller dominated this industry through horizontal integration.
What is the oil industry?
Millions of immigrants moved to cities primarily for these opportunities.
What are industrial jobs?
Progressives believed the government should take this role in regulating businesses.
What is an active role?
Progressives were most successful at regulating this sector of the economy.
What is big business.
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell improves communication and helps coordinate national businesses.
What is the telephone?
This term describes a business leader who controls entire industry.
What is a monopolist?
Overcrowded urban housing for the working poor was known by this term.
What are tenements?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This amendment allowed citizens to directly elect US senators.
What is the 17th amendment.
These government policies protected American industries by taxing foreign imports.
What are protective tariffs?
Andrew Carnegie used this strategy to control every stage of steel production.
What is vertical integration?
This group of formed labor unions to demand better wages, and working conditions.
Who are industrial workers?
These journalist exposed corruption and social problems.
Who are muckrakers?
Despite reforms, progressives largely failed to achieve equality for this group.
Who are Black Americans?
The rapid growth of this transportation network created a national market and lower shipping cost.
What are railroad?
This 1890 law aimed to limit monopolies, but was initially weekly enforced.
What is a Sherman antitrust act?
This 1894 strike disrupted rail traffic nationwide and required federal intervention.
What is the pullman strike?
This progressive president became known as a “trustbuster”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This Supreme Court decision limited the effectiveness of early child labor laws.
What is Hammer v Dagenhart?
This economic system encouraged private ownership, competition, and limited government interference.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This idea argued that wealth inequality was a natural result of competition and benefited society.
What is social Darwinism?
This reformer exposed dangerous working conditions in ”The Jungle”.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This reform movement sought to ban alcohol to improve society.
What is prohibition?
Overall, Progressive reforms were most effective at the _____ level of government.
What is the state and local level?