Industry and Technology
Immigration
Progressive Era
U.S. & Imperialism
Legislation
100
When one company controls the entire market eliminating competition
What is a monopoly
100
Early immigrants to America came from Northern Europe, later they began to arrive from ____
Southern and Eastern Europe
100
This Captain of Industry made his fortune in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
100
The Treaty of Paris of 1898 ended ___
Spanish-American War
100
laws that separated races
Jim Crow laws
200
Who invented the telephone?
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
200
An immigration processing station for people arriving from Asia
What is Angel Island
200
Journalists, photographers, and novelists who exposed problems in society
muckrakers
200
He wrote "The Jungle" which exposed horrific, unsanitary conditions in the Chicago meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
200
Gave women the right to vote
Nineteenth Amendment
300
This invention by Thomas Edison, allowed factories to operate day and night.
light bulb
300
An 1882 law that excluded immigrants from this country
China
300
A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators
initiative
300
This invention used by ranchers greatly impacted the lifestyle of the Plains Indians
barbed wire
300
This amendment gave Congress the right to tax income
Sixteenth Amendment
400
A company joins with or buys another company that does the same thing.
Example: Two shoe companies combine into one.
Horizontal integration
400
An immigration station for immigrants arriving from Europe
Ellis Island
400
A civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight racial discrimination and advocate for the rights of African Americans.
What is the NAACP
400
This term describes the Progressive Era when America glittered on the outside but was corrupt underneath
The Gilded Age
400
This Supreme Court decision ruled "separate but equal" was legal
Plessy vs. Ferguson
500
This law that makes it illegal for companies to work together to stop competition or to create a monopoly. (Hint: ("trust busting")
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
500
Two immigrant groups most responsible for building the railroad.
Irish and Chinese
500
a vote by citizens, not legislators, on whether to keep or reject a law
referendum
500
A sensational style of writing often exaggerated to sell newpapers
yellow journalism
500
This amendment outlawed the manufacturing, sale, and distribution of alcohol
Eighteenth Amendment
600
A company controls different steps of making and selling a product.
Example: A shoe company buys a factory that makes shoe materials or a store that sells shoes.
Vertical integration
600
Name one reason industrialists preferred immigrant labor.
paid lower wages
600
Initiative, recall, and referendum gave _________ power to the people
more
600
A law that broke up tribal land and forced Native Americans to assimilate into white culture
The Dawes Act
600
This amendment gave citizens the right to directly elect their Senators
Seventeenth Amendment
