Big Business/Misc
He founded Standard Oil and became one of the richest men in American history.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This invention allowed businesses to communicate instantly over long distances, especially benefiting railroad coordination and wartime strategy.
What is the telegraph?
Immigrants processed at this East Coast station primarily came from Europe and settled in rapidly industrializing urban centers.
What is Ellis Island?
Poor wages, long hours, and dangerous conditions caused workers to form these organizations seeking better treatment.
What are labor unions?
This 1862 act accelerated westward migration by offering settlers 160 acres, reinforcing the federal government’s ideological goal of national expansion.
What is the Homestead Act?
His steel monopoly depended heavily on the railroad expansion and the Bessemer process, which lowered production costs.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This invention extended factory working hours and accelerated urban growth, increasing the demand for workers and industrial output.
What is the electric light bulb?
Immigrants processed here faced harsher interrogations and longer detentions due to rising anti-Asian sentiment.
What is Angel Island?
: Founded by Samuel Gompers, this union focused on collective bargaining and skilled crafts, giving it more leverage in negotiations.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This 1876 battle, triggered by settler movement into the Black Hills, became the high-water mark of Native American armed resistance to federal expansion.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
These business combinations were created to eliminate competition and control prices.
What are trusts or monopolies?
The widespread adoption of new industrial technologies led urban centers to expand, resulting in this major social challenge affecting working-class neighborhoods.
What are overcrowded tenements and poor living conditions?
Urban political machines imposed these measures to limit immigrant political participation and maintain power.
What were poll taxes and literacy tests?
The AFL relied heavily on strikes because its membership differed in this critical way from the Knights of Labor.
What is that AFL members were skilled and harder to replace?
This 1890 event, resulting from government fears of the Ghost Dance movement, marked the end of large-scale Native resistance to U.S. expansion.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
Roosevelt’s diplomatic philosophy supported peace but threatened military action backed by naval power.
What is Big Stick diplomacy?
This author’s exposure of unsanitary meatpacking conditions led directly to federal oversight of food production.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal,” enabling decades of legalized racial discrimination.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Although they sought broad reforms, this early labor union struggled because employers could replace members quickly, weakening their negotiating power.
What is the Knights of Labor?
This investigative journalist revealed Standard Oil’s unfair business tactics, helping expand government oversight of monopolies.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Factories and cities began booming in part due to this --- connecting raw materials, markets, and workers.
What are the railroads?
This political reform allowed citizens to remove an elected official from office before the end of their term, increasing voter power and limiting corruption in state and local government
What is recall?
He supported the protection of natural resources not only because of growing industrial exploitation but also due to his personal love of the outdoors, leading to the expansion of federally protected lands and the establishment of the National Park Service.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The rise of unionization eventually pressured government at state and federal levels to enact reforms in these three major areas.
What are child labor laws, workplace safety regulations, and limits on work hours/wages?
This style of journalism used sensational and exaggerated reporting that contributed to public support for the Spanish-American War after the explosion of the USS Maine
What is yellow journalism?