Vocabulary
This is the process of going from man power to machine power:
What is Industrialization
The Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair
Gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
President from 1901 to 1909, The Trust buster and the regulator himself
TR
A Unions Biggest Bargaining Tool
A Strike
Henry Ford mass produced the model T with this factory system
The Assembly Line
What is a Trust
This Santa-Claus fanatic jumped at the opportunity to expose boss tweed when he realized he could make 5 times his normal salary by staying quiet
Who is Thomas Nast
The prohibition movement led to the illegal buying, selling and manufacturing of alcohol with this law, only to be destroyed 20 years later
18th Amendment
1909-1913, wasn't as popular with progressives and from Ohio, became the Supreme Court Chief Justice later on
William H. Taft
Jobs, Family and standard of living were examples of
Pull Factors
The Process of making Steel Cheaper and more affordable
Bessemer Process
When Union members negotiate their contracts with management its called:
Collective Bargaining
When Jacob Riis wrote "How the Other Half Lives" he was able to work with this soon to be President on changing the regulations and laws regarding tenement Housing in New York:
Who is Teddy Roosevelt or Theodore Roosevelt
Electing Senators directly and the Oregon System
17th Amendment
Was reluctant to get Women's Suffrage but was successful with the Clayton Antitrust Act
Woodrow Wilson
War Famine and Diseases were
Push Factors
The invention of this railway system allowed for Americans to travel anywhere between the east and west coast, and established Time zones.
The Transcontinental Railroad
A multifamily urban dwelling that was overcrowded and unsanitary
Tenement Housing
She exposed Rockefeller's Standard Oil for its monopoly greed and got the Trustbuster himself to break it all up
Who is Ida Wells
This Amendment gave Congress the power to tax Americans progressively by the amount of income they made every year
16th Amendment
This economic policy by Roosevelt favored fair relationships between companies and their workers
The Square Deal
Wage Cut Strike that resulted in President Hayes sending the military to break up the violent protesters
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The Wealth a person has is called
Capital
The "Hands off" approach to big business in the early years of Industrialization
What is Laissez-faire
In her book titled "Southern Horrors:" Ida Tarbell exposed the cruelty of this crime dealt to African Americans by white southerners
What is Lynching
Literacy Tests, Segregation, Poll Taxes and the Grandfather Clause all are examples of:
Jim Crow Laws
The Central Banking system of the United States that regulates money flow
The FTC
1892 Steelworker strike resulting in a battle with the Pinkertons over a Collective Bargaining dispute
The Homestead Strike
This Wizard of Menlo Park invented many things during this time period such as the lightbulb, phonograph, and the first major motion picture
Thomas Edison
A practice where a single entity controls the entire process of a product from the raw materials to the distribution:
What is Vertical Integration
This "Octopus" would have hated the railroad system in the Monopoly Board Game
Who is Frank Norris
The supreme Court in 1896 used this case determine that "Separate but Equal" was Constitutional
Which two progressive presidents were governors before becoming president
Roosevelt and Wilson
This railroad strike interfered with the US Postal Service because George Pullman lowered wages for workers while keeping their rent the same
The Pullman Strike of 1894
What are the five factors of productions (Specific)
Land, Labor, Capital, Ideology and Technology
The Absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level:
What is Horizontal Integration
When Upton Sinclair exposed the nasty and unsafe working conditions of the meatpacking industry, Congress unanimously passed this Law forcing the industry to change its way
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
DuBois and Company used this National Organization to bring awareness to Lynching going on in the south, almost took down the major motion picture a Birth of a Nation too
NAACP
Successfully name all three origin states of the Progressive Presidents (Hint: Most Common States for Presidents)
Ohio, New York, and Virginia
1886 labor-related protest in Chicago resulting in a fire and violence
Haymarket Riot
Tell me the difference between Robber Barons and Captains of Industry
Villians v. Heros, Rags to riches and greedy individualism against charity