The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
The theory states that businesses should be left to themselves, resulting in optimal production and prices.
What is Laissez-faire?
The God-Given right to move west and settle all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
What was Manifest Destiny?
What religion started the Social Gospel Movement?
The Protestant Church
Laws enforcing segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The first industry to be fully mechanized.
What are textiles?
Head of industries and trusts
What are robber barons?
The institution used to assimilate Indians into American culture ("Kill the Indian. Save the Man")
What was the Carlisle Boarding School?
Who led the Social Gospel Movement?
Walter Rauschenbusch
Uphold the constitutionality of “separate, but equal facilities” based on race.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Was revolutionary for the steel industry, and the way it was processed.
What is the Bessemer process?
Absorbed and/or destroyed competitors in Cleveland and elsewhere, and became a monopoly in oil.
Who is Rockefeller?
1862 Law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years for $10
What was the Homestead Act?
What did the Social Gospel movement lead to?
The formation of Christian democracy (Christian law) political ideology among Protestants and Catholics in Europe.
The South's economy post-Civil War initially relied on former slave labor under this system:
The adoption of sharecropping and tenant farming.
The United States became a manufacturing powerhouse during this period.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution/Gilded Age?
An undisputed master of the steel industry, and 1878 won the contract to build the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who is Carnegie?
This law treated the Indian tribes on an individual basis, rather than as a collective to encourage the Indian tribes to adapt Amero-European culture and agriculture
What was the Dawes Severalty Act?
the two major forces behind the Social Gospel movement
Protestants and Catholics
One of the founders of the NAACP, formed in 1909, who advocated for the higher education of blacks, equal political and social rights, and also economic independence.
Who is the W.E.B. Du Bois?
The inventor of the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
He was a successful businessman who used his fortune from the steamboat industry to merge local railroads into the New York Central Railroad.
Who is Vanderbilt?
This was a support system to promote farmers' social and economic needs.
What was the Grange Movement?
The major goal of the Social Gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to?
Draw the attention of Protestant churches to the plight of urban poor and of social and economic depravity
Self-educated former slave advocated for the industrial education of blacks at the cost of accepting social and political inequality (according to his rival).
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?