Industrialization
This was a negative term given to the 'captains of industry'
Robber barons
The majority of immigrants came from ________ Europe and ___________ Europe between 1870 and 1900.
Southern and Eastern
This book exposed the horrible condition of work, and the food supply, and helped get the Food and Drug Act passed.
The Jungle
What is Nativism?
Backlash or hostility to immigrants. Anti-immigrant
The writer of Huckleberry Finn, he is also credited with having coined the term, Gilded Age.
Mark Twain
Name the two types of integration that allowed for businesses to turn in to monopolies, especially in the late 19th century.
Horizontal and Vertical
The vast majority of immigrants entered through ________ island in New York, and _________ island in San Francisco.
Ellis , Angel
His big program was called the Square Deal:
-Conservation
-Consumer protection
-Corporate regulation
Teddy Roosevelt
What is nepotism in our class context?
Giving work to friends, rather than those who earned the position
This early 20th century governor of California is credited with having brought many early reforms to California, including worker's compensation
Hiram Johnson
The use of lockouts, scabs and blacklisting were all tactics aimed at doing what to the labor movement?
Eliminating it, crushing it, or hurting it
The book listed 4 major PULL factors drawing immigrants in to the country. Name at least 3 of them for $300
1. Work availability
2. Higher standard of living
3. Democracy / freedom
4. Social advancement or mobility
What disaster in New York in 1911 was responsible for a reaction that provided the strongest health and safety codes in the country, up until that point?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The writer of the Atlanta Compromise, he is also credited with having helped establish the Tuskegee Institute, one of America's first black colleges.
Booker T. Washington
This Italian man is considered the father of modern radio.
Marconi
4 time zones were established in 1883 to maintain safer and more reliable service throughout the U.S. Name all 4 times zones for $400
Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern
What was the slum housing where poor immigrants often had to live in called at this time?
Tenements
This famous female anarchist, activist and writer would eventually be expelled from the country for her radical activities.
Emma Goldman
What is a recall?
Unseating a politician by popular vote
The Homestead steel mill, owned by this man ______________, was one of his largest, and the site of a deadly strike between laborers and management.
Andrew Carnegie
Among Edison's many inventions was the ___________, which is basically the old school equivalent of the record player.
Phonograph
Jane Addams and Lillian Wald are most remembered for having formed _______________ Houses, in their respective cities, to aid the poor.
Settlement
What did the 16th Amendment and 17th Amendment accomplish each?
16th Amendment = income tax
17th Amendement = direct election of senators
What is a muckraker?
An investigative writer or journalist who tried to push for reform through their work.
A famous muckraker, he published, How the Other Half Lives, in 1890
Jacob Riis