Industrialization & Big Business
This late 19th-century economic philosophy argued that the government should NOT interfere in business practices. Also known as "hands off."
What is laissez-faire?
This group of immigrants came primarily from Southern and Western Europe and often faced discrimination
Who were the "New Immigrants"?
This term describes a currency system backed by both gold and silver.
What is bimetallism?
This system forced Native Americans onto specific areas of land controlled by the federal government
What is the reservation system?
This economic system required colonies to send raw materials to the mother country in exchange for manufactured goods
What is mercantilism?
This business tycoon built the first Monopoly in the US through oil refining.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
These overcrowded urban housing units contributed to disease due to the poor sanitation and ventilation
What are tenements/slums?
This political party supported farmers and called for reforms like regulating railroad rates
What is the Populist Party?
These encouraged western settlement but disrupted Native American hunting grounds and led to the near extinction of the Bisson
What are the transcontinental railroads?
This compromise (1820) admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain balance
What is the Missouri Compromise?
These Gilded Age innovations (3) helped businesses expand nationally by improving production, transportation, and communication
What are electricity, railroads/steam engines, and the telegraph?
This term describes hostility toward immigrants that led to restrictive immigration laws
What is nativism?
This reformer argued against the gold standard in his famous "Cross of Gold" speech
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
These were created to strip Native American children of their language and culture
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
This political movement expanded voting rights to white men and emphasized the "common man"
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
This federal law was the first attempt by the US government to regulate railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
These factors, such as jobs in industrial cities and better opportunities, encouraged people to immigrate to the US
What are pull factors?
This novel by Upton Sinclair led directly to consumer protection laws
What is the Jungle?
This battle symbolized Native American resistance but ultimately led to increased federal control. It is also known as Custer's Last Stand
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and divide the Confederacy in a war of attrition
What is the Anaconda Plan?
These powerful business leaders were often criticized for using their wealth to influence politics and government, and for mistreating their workers
Who were Robber Barons?
This 1882 law set a precedent by limiting immigration based on nationality or race. Our first immigration law
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These journalists exposed corruption and social problems to inspire reform during the Progressive Era
Who were muckrakers?
This 1887 law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal land into individual plots and having them become farmers
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This Enlightenment idea states that governments get their power from the people
What is the consent of the governed?