POLITICS AND REFORM
Law that required federal jobs to be awarded based on merit rather than political connections.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This island in New York Harbor processed millions of European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
The first major national labor union in the U.S., open to all workers.
What is the Knights of Labor?
This Scottish-born industrialist dominated the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What reformer is known as the founder of Hull House, which provided social services to immigrants in Chicago?
Who is Jane Addams?
This third-party movement supported farmers and called for free silver.
What is the Populist Party?
This type of political organization often helped immigrants in exchange for votes.
What is a political machine?
This union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers and collective bargaining.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This oil tycoon created Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the U.S. oil refineries.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This group pushed for the prohibition of alcohol, eventually leading to the 18th Amendment.
What is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
Famous speech by William Jennings Bryan advocating bimetallism.
What is the “Cross of Gold” speech?
Immigrants from Asia arriving through San Francisco Bay were processed here.
What is Angel Island?
This type of worker is hired to replace striking employees.
What is a strikebreaker or scab?
A company that has complete control over a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
Author of Looking Backward, this writer imagined a utopian society without poverty or class struggles.
Who is Edward Bellamy?
Reform movement emphasizing charity, morality, and social justice.
What is the Social Gospel Movement?
A law passed in 1882 that limited immigration from China.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
1892 strike at a steel plant that turned violent at Homestead, PA.
What is the Homestead Strike?
Combining multiple companies at different production stages is called this.
What is vertical integration?
This African American leader promoted vocational education and economic self-help, founding the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This act was designed to break up monopolies and regulate business practices.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Crowded, poorly built apartment buildings in cities, often housing immigrants.
What is a tenement?
Nationwide railroad strike in 1894 protesting wage cuts.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This banker bought out Carnegie Steel and created U.S. Steel.
This banker bought out Carnegie Steel and created U.S. Steel.
She was a journalist and activist who fought against lynching through her investigative reporting.
Who is Ida B. Wells?