The Revolution
The acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries is apart of what Revolution?
The second industrial revolution
Who built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets?
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
Railroads enabled the second industrial revolution.
True
What Historical tragedy increased safety legislation?
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Was the spread of electricity was essential to industrial and urban growth?
Yes!!
Who was sentenced to a month in jail for opening a clinic in Brooklyn that distributed birth-control devices to poor immigrant women?
Margaret Sanger
New immigrants at the end of the nineteenth century were welcomed and treated with respect because their labor was desperately needed in the cities.
False
Who arrived in large numbers from the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires?
New Immigrants
What court case sanctioned racial segregation?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who was the Progressive president 1901-1909?
Theodore Roosevelt
During the Progressive era, the working woman became a symbol of female emancipation.
True
Apart from the racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs?
The victim's alleged sexual conduct.
When was the first time race was used to exclude an entire group of people from entering the United States?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
What were immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland called?
Birds of Passage
Wealthy and working-class experienced economic growth equally during the second industrial revolution.
False
What term describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption?
Fordism
Who wanted to bar immigrants who were illiterate?
The Immigration Restriction League
Most immigrants to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s settled in New York City.
False. they settled in the cities where they worked.