Civil Rights
After the end of reconstruction, the south began to create laws to segregate and restrict the rights of freed slaves. These laws were called...
Jim Crow laws
The monopoly on railroads was held by...
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Investigative journalists of the early 20th century who exposed social and political corruption were known as...
Muckrakers
This court case established the precedent for "seperate but equal," giving legitimacy to Jim Crow laws.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Wright brothers invented the...
Airplane
Due to poverty and exploitation, many immigrants could only afford to live in cramped buildings with many other families. These buildings were called...
Tenements
The monopoly on oil was held by...
John Rockefeller
Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the horrors of the meatpacking industry called...
The Jungle
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Thomas Edison invented the...
Lightbulb
This group lost land, heritage, and their way of living due to westward expansion.
Native Americans
The monopoly on finance was held by...
J. P. Morgan
This police investigator and photographer went independent to publish a book called "How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob Riis
This law outlawed monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Alexander Graham Bell invented the...
Telephone
During this period, the push began for women's rights, specifically voting rights. What was this movement called?
Women's Suffrage
What were the two terms used to describe big business leaders in this time period? (No half points!)
Captains of Industry and Robber Barons
This muckraker wrote to expose political corruption in the North.
Lincoln Steffens
During this time period, two laws were created to limit the flow of immigrants into the United states. Name one.
Chinese Exclusion Act or Immigration Restriction Act
Henry Ford made the first large scale use of this.
Assembly Line
To fight back against anti-black sentiments in the US, WEB DuBois founded a group called...
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
This capitalist economic system practiced by the US government allowed for no government interference, freedom in the marketplace, and the creation of monopolies.
Lassez-Faire Capitalism
This journalist worked to expose the more violent acts of racism in the south, like lynching, in hopes of forcing the government to do something about the situation.
Ida B. Wells
This court case upheld a Virginia law for the sterilization of people considered genetically unfit, supporting the idea of Eugenics.
Buck v. Bell
A person in this period invented a process that made skyscrapers possible. What was the name of the process and the name of the inventor?
Bessemer steel making process, Henry Bessemer