Industrialization
This term means the government should take a “hands-off” approach to business.
What is laissez-faire?
This was the main pull factor that drew people from rural areas to cities during the Gilded Age.
What are factory jobs?
So-called "New Immigrants" came from these parts of the world.
What were Southern and Eastern Europe?
This was the focus of the Muckrakers during the Progressive Era.
What was exposing problems in society?
This 1803 purchase doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This man built a fortune in steel and believed the wealthy had a duty to help society.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This type of overcrowded city housing was common for poor families.
What is a tenement?
This 1882 law banned Chinese immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
His book The Jungle led to new food-safety laws.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This 1820 law balanced free and slave states by admitting Missouri and Maine.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
These powerful business leaders were called this when they used unfair methods to gain wealth.
What are robber barons?
This reformer’s photos exposed poverty and poor living conditions in tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This 1917 law required immigrants to pass a reading test.
What is the Literacy Test Act?
This company was the target of Ida Tarbell's muckraking work, which led to a new focus on antitrust law.
What was the Standard Oil Company?
This belief stated that the U.S. had a God-given right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This oil tycoon created a monopoly known as Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This 1911 factory fire led to new safety laws and workplace reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Many Americans opposed immigration because they feared immigrants would take jobs and change culture—this belief is called what?
What is nativism?
This muckraker published "The Shame of the Cities," which led to widespread political reforms.
This 1857 Supreme Court case said enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This idea applied the idea of “survival of the fittest” to justify big-business success and inequality.
What is Social Darwinism?
This woman founded Hull House to help immigrants adjust to life in America.
Who is Jane Addams?
This New York Harbor station processed millions of immigrants entering the U.S.
What is Ellis Island?
This journalist investigated lynching in the South and demanded justice for Black Americans.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This 1863 Civil War executive order freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?