Political Cartoons & Big Business
This political cartoon showed an octopus controlling industries controlling industries and government, what industry is it?
Standard Oil
This 1887 law created the first federal agency to regulate railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
During industrialization, immigrants often moved to cities to work in these
What are factories?
This journalist exposed poor living conditions in How the Other Half Lives
Who is Jacob Riis?
These reforms occurred mainly during this historical period
What is the Progressive Era
The businessman most associated with Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
What are railroads?
Crowded and unsanitary urban housing was known as this
What are tenements?
Who is Upton Sinclair
Before the 19th Amendment, many western states granted women this.
What is the right to vote
Industrial leaders like Rockefeller and Carnegie were sometimes called this by critics who believed they exploited workers.
What are robber barons?
This law passed in 1890 attempted to break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
Immigrant families often worked in small home factories known as this
What are sweatshops
Sinclair's book led directly to this law regulating meat processing
What is the Meat Inspection Act
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote
Andrew Carnegie dominated this industry during the Gilded Age.
What is the steel industry?
This Supreme Court case ruled that only Congress could regulate interstate railroad commerce.
What is Wabash v. Illinois?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This activist exposed lynching in the United States
Who is Ida B. Wells
This famers' political movement supported William Jennings Bryan and demanded economic reforms
What is the Populist movement?
These large corporations controlled entire industries and eliminated competition.
What are monopolies or trusts?
This Supreme Court case allowed the government to break up a railroad trust
What is Northern Securities v. United States
This labor union organized mainly skilled workers and used collective bargaining rather than large national strikes to improve wages and working conditions during the late 1800s
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This reform movement sought to ban alcohol in the United States
What is the Temperance Movement
President Theodore Roosevel believed the federal government should act as "steward of the public welfare," meaning the government should do this when corporations become too powerful
What is regulate or break up monopolies/trusts.