Immigration & Urbanization
This famous satirical author coined the term "Gilded Age."
Who is Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed during World War I gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Presidents before McKinley tended to support businesses over unions, including this NOT Progressive POTUS who sent the national guard to help the strike breakers (not the workers).
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This American businessman and founder of U.S. Steel wrote: "The man who dies rich dies disgraced." in The Gospel of Wealth which encouraged wealthy Americans to leave their money not to their children but to charity.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This is the name for hostility toward immigrants from people born in the United States
What is nativism?
This is the business management practice that calls for buying the entire supply chain process of an industry.
What is vertical integration?
Journalists who exposed corruption and other evils, including Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and many others were known by this nickname.
What is muckrakers?
In 1882, the U.S. Congress banned further immigration from:
What is China?
This was the name of the movement that gave us the 18th Amendment that banned the sale and distribution of alcohol.
What was prohibition?
This philosophy offered "scientific" reasoning for the growing disparity of wealth in America.
What is Social Darwinism?
This is the term for a government policy that allows businesses and the economy to function without interference.
Was is laissez-faire?
This governmental body was established to regulate businesses and prevent fraud to consumers.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
This was created under Wilson to help regulate the money supply and prevent future economic panics.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
One of the most famous journalists in the Progressive Era, her attempts to make lynching a federal crime would finally become law in March...of 2022.
Who was Ida B. Wells
After 1890, the “New Immigrants” tended to be from _______ region and the ______ religion.
What are Southern Europe and Catholic?
Booker T. Washington's famous speech in which he conceded that White people would continue to discriminate as long as Black people were not economically self-sufficient - he also asked for educational equality.
What was the Atlanta Compromise?
Although this act would give the federal government power to regulate any industry that crossed state lines it was primarily aimed at the regulation of railroads and the trusts that owned them.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
He was a writer and professor and one of the founders of the NAACP and fought for African-American rights by using the courts, the law, and the Constitution.
Who was W.E.B. du Bois?