Capitalism
This man is responsible for the biggest steel industry during this time
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The KOL stands for
What is the "Knights of Labor"?
True or False: an immigrants health was checked and if they were unhealthy, they would be sent back to their country.
What is true?
The person that W.E.B. Dubois and a lot of the African American population despised due to this person's belief on what the African American population should do in their current social/economic state
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The Haymarket Square Bombing started due to what labor union
What is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
They called to strike for an 8-hour-work day, things got out of hand and someone threw a bomb killing 7 police officers.
When the The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was first passed, it (__) unions.
a) helped
b) hurt
c) legalized
d) promoted
What is hurt?
The act hurt unions at first instead of helping them, which was the intention, because the businesses argued that unions were trusts and hurt competition. (the act: prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace)
The Pullman Strike was felt on what industry?
What is railroads?
The Pullman strike was a nationwide strike done by railroad workers.
Immigrants would come through this island
What is Ellis Island?
What is rags to riches?
What is the Protestants?
Which business leader donated the largest amount of money to the poor?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The NAACP stands for
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
The act which restricted Chinese immigration for 10 years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
Susan B. Anthony was apart of the (__) movement
What is the women's/suffragette movement?
The president assassinated during the Gilded Age
President Garfield was assassinated by a man who was delusional and thought that because he voted for Garfield, he would get a high paying gov. job.
John D. Rockefeller was in control of what trust?
What is the Standard Oil Trust?
True or False:
The Homestead strike was an extremely violent strike.
What is true?
The Homestead strike was a violent strike in which Carnegie steel workers, striked about low wages and was later confronted by Pinkertons (private security agents). The strikers won, killing 17 Pinkertons, but they were later fired, replaced, and put on trial for murder.
The New Immigrants were from:
a) Southern and Eastern Europe
b) Northern and Eastern Europe
c) Eastern Asia
d) Central Europe
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
The New Immigrants were Slavs, Italians, Balkans, and the Greeks. They weren't considered "white" and seen as inferior to white Americans. They faced similar conditions to African Americans such as housing segregation, limited opportunities, and excluded from unions.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
The (__) Laws were laws that censored many profanities that could be released in media. This was also known as the "parent" act.
These laws banned anything sexual published, contraceptives, and even anything sexual in private letters. This a clear representation of what Victorian culture valued.
The Interstate Commerce Act helped stop?
What is monopolies?
The act oversaw interstate railroad practices and banned monopolistic practices. Companies challenged it, failed and instead made it stronger → allowed gov. to set rates.
True or false: the middle-class were supportive of the working class and their strikes.
The middle-class was easily persuaded by the media which was controlled by many of the companies during this time. They also saw the working/labor class as less than because they weren't following victorian morals (drinking, profanity, women working outside the home, not being "morally" good).
Those opposed to immigration were known as
What is nativists?
Nativists were typically native-born Americans who typically came from a Western European immigrant background (German, British).
The person responsible for the Hull House
Who is Jane Addams?
The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson stated (__) is legal as long as it is equal.
What is segregation?