Big Business/
Labor Unions
Labor Unions
This was the philosophy held during the Gilded Age about the free market with no government regulation.
What is laissez faire?
This was the hope and dream of the New South
Create an industrialized economy and rebuild south after war.
The term to describe immigrants that come from Eastern or Southern Europe, in which many were Catholic, Jewish, and did not speak English as their native language.
What is New Immigrant?
The corruption of this political machine was exposed by Thomas Nast's political cartoons.
What is the Tweed Ring or Tammany Hall?
This government policy gave people 160 acres of unused farmland if they agreed to work on it for 5 years.
Homestead Act
Carnegie's playbook for the wealthy to operate in society
Gospel of Wealth
After the ruling of Plessy v Ferguson these laws were prevalent in southern and western states
Jim Crow
This was passed due to economic competition, after the completion of the railroads, and racism in the West.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This act called for civil service exams after the assassination of a POTUS.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This man was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute...
Booker T. Washington
The explanation that businessmen and others who were economically and socially successful were so because they were biologically and socially “naturally” the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
After the Plessy decision this was the primary justification for allowing Jim Crow laws to exist.
14th amendment is not violated if facilities are separate but equal.
Jane Adams and other reformers set up these within enclaves to help immigrants assimilate to American culture
Settlement Houses
This was the name of the political party platform that called for regulations to counteract the power of the railroads and the Gold Standard.
What is the Omaha Platform or Populist Party Platform?
Native Americans were attempted to be assimilated into American culture with the passage of this law
Dawes- Severalty Act
This strike led to a decline in the membership of Knights of Labor because of the bombing by an anarchist.
What is the Haymarket Strike?
Name two ways that the New South hindered African American rights after the Civil War/ Reconstruction
Violence / Terrorism
Voting intimidation/ refusal
Vagrancy Laws
Segregation Laws
These two hubs were where most immigrants came to America first before being sent out to make it on their own.
Angel and Ellis Island.
First government agency to regulate business in America...
ICC (Interstater Commerce Commission)
Struggling Farmers formed what newly created organization to help in their battles against the railroads
Grange Movements.
Name and explain three prominent business practices that the businessmen of the time did to gain a stronger control on markets
Vertical/ Horizonal Integration
trusts
Holding companies
corrupt deals
buying out competitors
These laws/acts made the KKK illegal in the South...called the "Lost Cause"
KKK Acts/Enforcement Acts
What were immigrants called that returned back to their homeland....
"Birds of Passage"
Laws that criminalized the mailing of obscene and abortion-related materials.
Comstock laws
This new invention halted the expansion of the cowboy and cattle drive industry
Barbed Wire