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An economic system that favors public, rather than private, control of property and income.
What is socialism?
Investigative journalists who exposed political and social issues during the Progressive Era.
What are Muckrakers?
A rail link between built from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
When the number of cities and people living in them dramatically increase.
What is Urbanization?
A political group that sought to help African Americans be “physically free from peonage (forced, low-paid labor), mentally free from from ignorance, politically free from disenfranchisement, and socially free from insult.”
What is the NAACP?
When ideas, values, and practices are widely shared in a society through mass media and popular entertainment.
What is Mass Culture?
Provided federal agents with the power to inspect any meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing facilities.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
A movement in the late 1800s–early 1900s in the U.S. that aimed to reform society and government by addressing problems from industrialization, inequality, and corruption.
What is Progressivism?/What is the Progressive Era?
Founded Standard Oil in 1870 which controlled 90% of oil production at its peak. Was known for using horizontal integration, or buying out its competitors.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
When politicians rewarded supporters with positions of power regardless of their experience
What is the Spoils System?
This person was an African American leader in the US. they urged Black Americans to demand the rights that had been guaranteed for all men in the constitution.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Wilson’s plan to put strict government control on big business in order to help small businesses. Focused on attacking what he referred to as the "Triple Walls of Privilege."
What is New Freedom?
Roosevelt’s program that tried to keep the wealthy and the powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor
What is the Square Deal?
A court case from 1896. It established the idea of “Separate but Equal” allowing states to continue using Jim Crow laws. It made segregation acceptable in the US.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The belief that “survival of the fittest” applied to people, culture, and society, meaning the strong would succeed and the weak would fail.
What is Social Darwinism?
The process in the late 1800s and early 1900s where immigrants were taught American culture, language, and customs so they could fit into U.S. society.
What is Americanization?
An infamous political machine from NYC. Boss William Tweed offered jobs, homes, and other resources to immigrants in exchange for votes.
What is Tammany Hall?
Railroad towns where cowboys would drop off cattle and receive payment
What is a Cow Town?
This person was an African American leader in the US. They urged Black Americans to push for radical change slowly by working hard, obtaining an education in the trades, and waiting patiently.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Buying and displaying luxury items or services to show off one's wealth.
What is Conspicuous Consumerism?
Racially mixed neighborhoods begin to emerge throughout cities. Attracting artists, writers, political radicals, and others whose live defied social conventions
What is a Bohemian?
In an attempt to end the Spoils System, this created a civil service exam that people had to take before being hired for a civil service job.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
Taft’s policy that increased investment in foreign countries willing to protect US interests in their land.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This person developed a safety elevator that would not fall if the lifting cable broke. Allowing for cities to begin building upward.
Who is Elisha Otis?
A system where cattle were not fenced in and were instead identified with branding. This created a need for “Cowboys”
What is the Open-Range System?