Industrial Titans & Business
Strategy where a company owns every stage of production.
Vertical integration
Overcrowded, poorly built apartment buildings for the urban poor.
Tenements
Upton Sinclair’s novel exposing the meatpacking industry.
The Jungle
This Amendment granted women's suffrage.
19th Amendment
Economic system characterized by private ownership and free markets.
Capitalism
Industrialist who founded Standard Oil using trusts.
John D. Rockefeller
1886 Chicago protest that turned violent, hurting the Knights of Labor.
Haymarket Riot
Photographer who captured "How the Other Half Lives" in NYC.
Jacob Riis
Theodore Roosevelt’s domestic program for fair treatment of labor and consumers.
Square Deal
The policy of government non-interference in business.
Laissez-faire
Process for mass-producing steel efficiently.
Bessemer Process
AFL leader who focused on "bread and butter" unionism.
Samuel Gompers
Founder of Hull House and leader in settlement houses.
Jane Addams
1881 Act that created the civil service system for federal jobs.
Pendleton Act
Philosophy applying "survival of the fittest" to human society.
Social Darwinism
Carnegie’s belief that the rich have a moral duty to be philanthropic.
Gospel of Wealth
1882 law that restricted immigration based on nationality.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Muckraker who wrote a scathing history of Standard Oil.
Ida Tarbell
Voters can approve or reject a law via this Progressive tool.
Referendum
Ideology based on the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
Communism
A company that exists only to own stock in other corporations.
Holding company
Socialist leader of the American Railway Union involved in the Pullman Strike.
Eugene V. Debs
Founder of the NAACP and advocate for immediate civil rights.
W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) DuBois
1913 law that created a decentralized central banking system.
Federal Reserve Act
Management theory by Frederick Taylor to improve industrial efficiency.
Scientific Management