Domestic Legislations
This 1906 law required accurate labeling of food and drug products.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This U.S. President is known for his "Square Deal" domestic program, kickstarting the Progressive Era.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This Tammany Hall leader's political machine was exposed by political cartoonist Thomas Nast and journalist Samuel Tilden in the 1870s.
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
This term refers to large corporations that dominate an industry and eliminate competition.
What is a monopoly?
This term describes the period of American history from the 1870s to 1900, known for rapid industrialization and wealth inequality.
What is the Gilded Age?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1913, allowed the federal government to collect income taxes.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Followed President Teddy Roosevelt, will be known to bust more trust then him angering him to create his own political party (The Bull Moose Party)
Who is William Howard Taft?
A group of workers organized to fight for better wages and working conditions. Most popular in the 1870s-1890s
What are labor unions?
Name of the Entrepreneurs (business owners) who used unfair business tactics to exploit their employees and the public
Who are Robber Barrons?
This time period in history saw an increase in inventions and creations of steam and electric powered tools and machines, causing a sharp increase in industry.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Known for creating the "Hull House", a settlement house designed for immigrants and poor women
Who is Jane Addams?
These apartment style building would overcrowd thousands of residents in cities leading to things like disease and overpopulation increasing in cities
What are tenements?
a legal arrangement in which one corporation or entrepeneur manages and operates a business or business assets of multiple other businesses
What is a trust?
This term describes the migration of millions of people from rural areas to cities in search of factory jobs during the Gilded Age.
What is Urbanization?
This Act regulated the rates of railroads and put regulations on communications (railroads and telegraph lines)
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Known for his "moral dipolmacy" and was the wartime president during WW1. Also came up with the idea of the League of Nations.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This term describes the practice of newspapers and magazines exposing corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
The name of the business tatic John D. Rockefeller used to buy almost all of the oil companies in the United States created a monopoly on oil. Creating Standard Oil
What is Vertical Integration?
This economic system is based on private ownership, free markets, and the pursuit of profit.
What is capitalism?
This 1890 law was passed to break up monopolies and trusts that restricted free trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This muckraking journalist wrote "The Jungle" to expose conditions in the meat-packing industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This 1911 factory fire in New York City killed over 140 garment workers and sparked labor reform.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
A business tactic used to monopolize (have complete control over) all parts of a products production, used by Andrew Carnegie. (ex. refinery of oil to oil production to selling of the oil)
What is Horizontal Integration?
This process was used by Henry Ford to speed up and increase the production of his cars. This will help to cut down the cost of any product.
What is the assembly line?