Vocabulary
Agrarian
What is relating to farming or agriculture?
Farmers and Laborers (addressing economic inequality)
What was the wealth difference between the richest Americans and all other Americans during the Gilded Age ? *Hint: use percentages
The richest 1% of Americans owned MORE wealth than the other 99%.
Who is best known for her investigative journalism on the Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell
Founding member of the Socialist Party of America
Eugene V. Debs
Populism
What is a political perspective that gives priority to the interest of ordinary people?
Who was included in and excluded from the Granger movement?
Women leaders were included and African Americans were excluded.
What was one goal of progressives?
Who's vivid portrayal of poverty, overcrowding, and unsanitary conditions in immigrant neighborhoods galvanized public awareness and led to housing reform and improved sanitation laws.
Jacob Riis
Progressive Presidents
Inflation
What is a rise in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money ?
What was the speech called that William Jennings Bryan gave at the Democratic Party Convention in 1896?
"Cross of Gold" speech.
Which amendment allowed the direct election of U.S. Senators.
Seventeenth
Who exposed the meatpacking industry through his famous novel, "The Jungle"?
Upton Sinclair
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Political Machine
What is a group that maintains political control, usually of a city, through bribery and intimidation?
Who was the Populist candidate for president in 1892?
James B. Weaver
Power is held by the people, who exercise it directly or through elected representatives.
Democracy
Journalist who worked to explore and expose problems and challenges to society.
MUCKRAKERS
What were the effects of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
New York had dozens of new state laws that protected workers safety.
Loophole
What is a gap or deficiency in a law that enables individuals and organizations to evade the law's stated purpose.
Why did the People's Party come to an end ?
She convinced state government to build hospitals and institutions to care for people who needed mental health care.
Dorothea Dix
Which Muckraker stated, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach "
Upton Sinclair
How was Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine similar?
They took photos of child laborers across the country that led to public demands for action.