Growing Workforce
This is the number of immigrants (roughly) that entered the US each year from 1881-1905
Roughly a million
This man established a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he patented the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
This is the political system that allowed for corporations to form monopolies
Laissez-faire politics
This was the banning of alcoholic beverages, spearheaded by the Women's Christian Temperance Union
Prohibition (18th Amendment)
The Niagara Movement was created by W.E.B. DuBois in opposition to the beliefs of this activist
Booker T. Washington
Drought, crop failures, and social unrest
This new type of bridge allowed for roads to span longer distances across bodies of water, including the Brooklyn Bridge
Suspension bridges
This type of business, owned by multiple people, has the same rights as individuals
Corporation
Hull House is an example of this goal, by helping young adults, single mothers, and orphaned children
Protecting social welfare
This group is what the Niagara Movement evolved into after the public outrage of the Springfield Riot
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
These are the conditions immigrants faced in the workforce
Low wages, dirty environments, dangerous jobs, sweatshops, factories, etc.
This man patented the first telephone, which would result in 34,000 miles of telephone wires being laid across America
Alexander Graham Bell
This oil tycoon formed agreements with railroad companies to give him a monopoly over the oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
These journalists wrote articles exposing the dangerous environments created by "laissez-faire" economics
Muckrakers
This document compiled a list of platforms and demands by the Niagara Movement for the American government and people
The Declaration of Principles 1905
This is a businessman who invests time and money into a product or service, risking their livelihoods on the chance of success
Entrepreneur
Guglielo Marconi is responsible for inventing this, an evolved version of Samuel Morse's technology
Wireless telegraph
This CEO forced his competitors to relocate because they couldn't fight his prices
Cornelius Vanderbilt
This woman helped prohibit child labor and women's working hours in an attempt to protect social welfare
Florence Kelley
In the Education section of the Declaration of Principles, the Movement demands the accessibility and necessity of what kind of institutions?
Public schools, colleges, and trade/technical schools
This is the economic philosophy that allows for the freedom to run a business with minimal regulations
Free enterprise
This invention was created at the time of skyscrapers, convenient for climbing the many levels
Elevator
This was the evolutionary theory that economists attributed to the free market: the best businesses would survive
Social Darwinism
Ford Motor Company used assembly lines and mass production to improve on this goal
Fostering efficiency
This section of the Declaration of Principles explains the necessary function of conflict and the importance of complaining "loudly and insistently"
Agitation