Big Business & Industry
This oil tycoon founded Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This New York immigration station processed millions of immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
Workers who protest working conditions may do this.
What is a STRIKE?
Journalists who exposed corruption were called this.
What are muckrakers?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation as “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This industrialist dominated the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Overcrowded city housing for the poor was called this.
What are tenements?
This industry dominated South Carolina’s economy and employed many workers in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
What is the textile industry?
This amendment established the income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Laws enforcing racial segregation in the South were called this.
What are Jim Crow laws?
These powerful business leaders were sometimes called “captains of industry” or this more negative term.
What are robber barons?
Political machines traded jobs and services for this in elections.
What are VOTES?
DOUBLE POINTS! (600)
List 5 Main Goals of the Progressive Movement!
1. Reduce Corruption in Government
2. Regulate Big Business
3. Improve Working Conditions
4. Improve Living Conditions
5. Expand Democracy
This amendment allowed direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This African American leader promoted vocational education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This law (1890) aimed to break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This book exposed the harsh conditions of immigrants in Chicago.
What is The Jungle?
This system kept many SC farmers in poverty by tying them to land through debt.
What is sharecropping (or tenant farming)?
This president was known as a “trust buster.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This leader co-founded the NAACP and demanded equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This practice allowed companies to eliminate competition and control prices.
What is a monopoly (or trust)?
This is when an area increases in population. (Major Cities).
What is URBANIZATION?
Reformers pushed laws in SC to limit this practice involving young workers in factories.
What is child labor?
This amendment made the buy and selling of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This women’s movement led to voting rights in 1920.
What is the women’s suffrage movement?