Controversy & Corruption
The style of investigative journalism that tackles corruption in business owners, landlords, and politicians.
What is Muckraking?
This candidate received support by “waving the bloody shirt”
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Passed in 1883, this act put an end to patronage
What is the Pendleton Act?
Passed in 1882, this act prevented all further immigration from China.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
When a company "corners the market" of a product by out-competing or purchasing all their competition to gain control over prices
What is a monopoly?
This "back room deal" involving President Hayes was widely accepted as the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Scottish immigrant who organized a vast new industry on the principle of “vertical integration”
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
“Stock watering” and bribery of public officials eventually led to the 1887 passage of this, the first federal law aimed at regulating American industry
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This system of labor, involving the working of a segment of the employer's farmland for a portion of the profit, is largely considered a second form of slavery.
What is Sharecropping?
Combining all phases of manufacturing from mining to marketing into one organization describes this merger form.
What is vertical integration?
Exposed in 1875, this scandal involved diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, booze distillers, and distributors
What is the Whiskey Ring scandal?
Aggressive energy-minded industry monopolist who used tough means to build a trust based on “horizontal integration”
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Formed in 1892, this party demanded inflation through free and unlimited coinage of silver, a graduated income tax and the direct election of senators (among other things)
What is the People's Party (Populists)?
This organization, which concentrated on improving wages, hours, and working conditions, was the brainchild of Samuel Gompers.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
The theory used to rationalize the accumulation of vast wealth by a few and the relative poverty of the masses; that the millionaires are a product of natural selection.
What is Social Darwinism?
Finally exposed by cartoonist Thomas Nast, this group used bribery, graft, and fraudulent elections to milk NYC of nearly $200 million.
What is the Tweed Ring?
Former California governor and organizer of the Central Pacific Railroad
Who is Leland Stanford?
Though not effectively enforced, this 1890 legislation put Congress on record as placing “public need” over “private greed”
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Landmark 1896 Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional under the 14th amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Aligning with competitors to monopolize a given market describes this merger form.
What is horizontal integration?
This scandal erupted in 1872 when Union Pacific Railroad insiders formed a construction company and then hired themselves at inflated prices to build the railway lines
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?
The genius behind the welding together and expanding of the older eastern railway networks, most notably the New York Central, he offered superior railway service at lower rates
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
Created as a secret society in 1869, this organization sought to include all workers in "one big union" including skilled and unskilled laborers, Black Americans, and women.
What is the Knights of Labor?
The belief that those who acquired great wealth were morally responsible to use it for the public good.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?