The West
Big Buisness
Immigration/Labor Unions
Progressives
Mystery
100
These photographs represent what American policy?
Assimilation of Natives
100
How did busines owners like Carnegie and Rockefeller increase company profits?
By establishing monopolies and trusts
100
What was the goal of labor unions in the late 1800s?
Better working conditions - shorter workdays and better wages
100
Investigative journalists who exposed the corruption in businesses and the government, were known as what?
Muckrakers
100
The Populist party represented the views of what group of people?
Farmers and laborers (in the west/south)
200
This law encouraged settlers to move west to take advantage of free land
The Homestead Act
200
Tycoons like Vanderbilt and Rockefeller were often called ________ because they made money at the expense of their workers
Robber Barons
200
How were political bosses, like Boss Tweed, able to gain influence and power over city governments?
By bribing immigrants for votes
200
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle inspired which progressive law?
The Pure Food and Drug Act
200
How did these inventions impact life during the Industrial age?
Changed how people worked and businesses operated.
Led to urban growth (urbanization)
300
This law gave subsidies to railroad companies allowing them to spread west
The Pacific Railway Act
300
The belief that strong businesses survive and weaker businesses die off or fail
Social Darwinism
300
Why were labor unions largely unsuccessful in the late 1800s?
The public blames strikers for violence
The government backed big businesses
Businesses replaced striking workers with scabs
300
Why did the triangle shirtwast factory fire result in deaths?
There were no safety standards in businesses.
300
Competition for jobs, different language and cultural practices, and distrust toward immigrants.
Nativism
400
This law forced natives onto reservations and created boarding schools for Native American children
The Dawes Act
400
The government did not regulate the economy, allowing businesses to grow
Laissez-faire
400
The idea that immigrant cultures and beliefs mix together to create a unique American culture
Melting Pot
400
Which amendment was passed in response to the problems shown in the cartoon?
18th Amendment - Prohibition
400
What problem is shown in this political cartoon?
A few people (party bosses) controlled and influenced the cities
500
Which two progressive amendments addressed issues from the Populist party platform?
16th - Graduated income tax
17th - direct election of senators
500
Because of Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth and philanthropic actions at the end of his life, we might call him a
Captain of Industry
500
This was one of the first limits on immigration.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
500
Which president is known as a "trustbuster" dissolving bad trusts?
Theodore Roosevelt
500
Which court case legalized the idea of "separate but equal"
Plessy vs. Ferguson