Progressivism
The Bessemer Process
What is the process for converting iron into steel?
When a company controls all production and distribution of an industry, and there are no competitors.
What is a monopoly?
The name for the place where American Indians lived after the 1850's.
What are reservations?
Most people moved to the cities in search of these.
What are jobs?
The term given for trying to get women the right to vote.
What is women's suffrage?
Invented the light bulb which helped factories stay open later.
Who is Thomas Edison
This President was known as the "trust buster" because he blocked businesses from creating trusts (monopolies).
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This Act of Congress divided up Native American (Indian land) and gave the best land to European Americans.
What was the Dawes Act?
Workers from the same trade/job that come together for the purpose of bargaining and negotiation.
What is a labor or trade union?
This association was formed in an effort to fight the Jim Crow laws and seek rights for African Americans.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This man was founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The Act of Congress that banned immigrants from a specific country in 1882.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This group of immigrants primarily came to the U.S. to build the transcontinental railroad.
Who were the Chinese immigrants?
What is the Pure Food an Drug Act?
Pollution, crime, disease, big business corruption, racism towards immigrants, child labor, etc.
What are the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Owned a monopoly in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This was the largest immigration station located in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
This book exposed the horrible conditions in the meat packing plants in Chicago.
What is Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle?"
This type of investigative journalism exposed the "filth" and problems in the Progressive Era.
What was yellow journalism?
This was Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution that was applied to justify the rise of big business and industries.
What is Social Darwinism?
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Who were the Industrialists or Captains of Industry or Robber Barons? Who had monopolies of industries?
Immigrants from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe.
Who were the New Immigrants?