Gilded Business
A wealthy business owner who makes their wealth from exploiting their workers.
What is a Robber-Baron?
This term describes the reasons why an immigrant would decide to move out of their home country.
What are push factors?
The youngest president in history to date, this man was a strong advocate of environmental conservation, and "big stick" diplomacy.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
These organizations represent workers and fight for their rights, such as higher wages, shorter hours, safer working conditions.
What are Unions?
This historical document was a "breakup letter" between the American Colonies and Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A business strategy where a company acquires or merges with another company at the same stage of the supply chain.
What is Horizontal Integration?
The primary Immigration station located on the East Coast. This one mainly screened European Immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This progressive president served as the first civilian governor of the Philippines.
Who is William Howard Taft?
This social ideology was inspired by Protestant teachings, it encouraged generosity and inspired people to fight for social reform.
What is Social Gospel
This compromise permitted Maine to enter the union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It also established a line and made slavery illegal above that line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A business strategy where a company acquires or merges with another company at different stages of the supply chain.
What is Vertical Integration?
This term refers to the assimilation of immigrants to adopt American values.
What is Americanization?
This journalist took pictures of urban slums to raise awareness of the poor social conditions of "the other half."
Who is Jacob Riis?
Some journalists investigated poor working conditions in urban areas and published their controversial findings in books and magazines. They were considered ______-Journalists.
What is a muckraker?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after the Civil War.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This political doctrine believed that economics would regulate itself and should not be supported by government intervention.
What is laissez-faire?
This "-ism" rose to popularity during the Gilded Age and favors the interests of native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is Nativism?
Socialism is the political theory that advocates ownership of the means of production by the common people. It was heavily inspired by this man.
Who is Karl Marx?
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair spurred the creation of this government administration.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This political group feared the ratification of the Constitution because they disagreed with its creation of a strong, central government.
What are anti-federalists?
This was the name of John D. Rockefeller's monopolistic corporation.
What is Standard Oil?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese Immigrants to the US for a decade and...
What is denied them citizenship?
This Scottish businessman created a steel empire and has a university named after him.
This progressive act outlawed trusts, monopolies, and other powerful types of business. However, its vague language made it very weak.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What was Mr. Downing's first job?
What is a rock climbing instructor?