New Technology
This inventor is associated with the incandescent lightbulb that could provide inexpensive, long-lasting light.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This movement emphasized the interests of ordinary working people over wealthy elites.
What is Populism?
This muckraker wrote The Jungle, which helped draw attention to problems with food production.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
These organizations grew because workers wanted higher wages and better working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This president initiated the most antitrust suits and investigations
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Factories could use electric illumination to do this for longer hours.
What is operate day and night?
Populists used this word to describe wealthy, well-educated people who controlled business, industry, and politics.
What is the elite?
This journalist investigated and wrote about Rockefeller's business methods.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
These children worked in coal mines and suffered physical effects such as bent backs and permanent hand problems.
Who are the Breaker Boys?
Roosevelt's Square Deal focused on these three areas.
What are controlling corporations, protecting consumers, and conserving natural resources?
This inventor developed the triode.
Who is Lee DeForest?
Farmers turned toward Populism partly because agricultural technology allowed fewer people to do more work, changing their traditional communities.
What is agricultural advancement/technology?
This muckraker used photographs to show Americans the conditions faced by child workers.
Who is Lewis Wickes Hine?
This entrepreneur introduced the eight-hour work shift.
Who is Henry Ford?
This amendment changed how U.S. senators were selected.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Alessandro Volta and Michael Faraday made important contributions to this area of technology.
What is electricity/electrical technology?
This organization initially provided farmers with community and agricultural connections.
What is the Grange?
This journalist helped bring attention to poor living conditions in urban tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
American workers faced greater risks than workers in Great Britain partly because American industry emphasized this over worker safety.
What are speed and production?
Name one law from the unit that was designed to limit monopolies or trusts.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act or Sherman Antitrust Act?
A company was organized to solve a major problem with telephone signals over long distances.
What is American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T)?
Populists supported this idea because they believed it would increase the money supply and reduce its value, making loans easier for farmers to repay.
What is free silver?
Imagine you are a reformer in 1905. You discover that children are working in dangerous conditions. You publish photographs showing the public what is happening. Explain why this could help create reform.
It could raise public awareness and pressure people/government to address unsafe child-labor conditions.
A family is struggling financially. The adults do not earn enough money to support everyone, so their children begin working instead of attending school. What larger problem does this example demonstrate?
What is child labor caused partly by low family wages/poverty?
It responded to violence between workers and employers. It also prohibited the same individuals from serving as directors of different companies.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?