Vocabulary
This term is relating to farming or agriculture?
Agrarian
The People's Party aimed to support...
What is Farmers and Laborers (addressing economic inequality)
This author named the period between the late 1800s and early 1900s the Gilded Age
Who is Mark Twain
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
This was a issue many immigrants faced as they came to America
What is discrimination?
This is the growth of factories, mines, and mills
What is industrialization?
This is the growth of cities
What is urbanization?
This president was known as a trustbuster
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This is the description of Populism
What is a political perspective that gives priority to the interest of ordinary people?
These groups of people were included in and excluded from the Granger movement?
Who are women leaders and African Americans
These were some goals of progressives
What is make politics more democratic. Expose issues due to industrialization and urbanization.
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
Famine, political unrest, religious persecution were examples of this factor
What is a push factor?
This phrase left many businesses unregulated
What is laissez-faire
The growth of cities caused demand in housing which led to cramped conditions lack of fresh air and natural light with insufficient plumbing in these places
What are tenements?
Monopolies were considered the according to page 43
What is dangerous
This is a rise in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money
What is inflation?
This speech was given by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic Party Convention in 1896
What is "Cross of Gold" speech
This amendment allowed the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is the Seventeenth amendment
Who exposed the meatpacking industry through his famous novel, "The Jungle"?
Upton Sinclair
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
This group of immigrants were excluded from entering the U.S. for 10 years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What is mechanization?
Cities like New York struggled with these issues
What is sanitation and waste removal?
These were considered to be social reforms as they created kindergartens, playgrounds and provided a gathering place for urban immigrants
What were settlement houses or civic centers?
Political Machine
What is a group that maintains political control, usually of a city, through bribery and intimidation?
These were reasons farmers had issues in the late 1800s
Name at least one.
What is debt, overproduction, low crop prices, mechanization?
This act tried to increase economic competition by making monopolies illegal and break trusts to smaller parts that would compete against one another
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
Journalist who worked to explore and expose problems and challenges to society.
What are Muckrakers?
What were the effects of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
New York had dozens of new state laws that protected workers safety.
This was a preference of foreign born people rather than immigrants
What is nativism
Corporations were made more powerful through the creation this business practice during the late 1800s and early 1900s
What are monopolies?
Exhaust from factories and other sources like railroads caused this condition in cities
What is pollution?
This was the government response to monopolies and trusts
Must name 2
What is the Sherman Anti trust act; Clayton anti-trust act; interstate commerce act
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 ?
The people's party was mostly democratic. When the democratic candidate (William Jennings Bryan) lost the election, the People's Party ended.
She convinced state government to build hospitals and institutions to care for people who needed mental health care.
Who is Dorothea Dix
Which Muckraker stated, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach "
Upton Sinclair
This is what Lewis Hines exposed
He took photos of child laborers across the country that led to public demands for action.
These factors were why immigrants came to the U.S.
What are pull factors?
This is the economic system that contributed to the US becoming the 3rd top producing country in the world
What is capitalism?
What is cholera?
This was considered one success of the Progressive Era
This was considered one negative of the Progressive Era
What is regulations, laws, improved working conditions, living conditions (fresh air, fire escapes, sprinkler system, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Antiquities Act, etc)?
What is poverty and discrimination of immigrants and African Americans as they were left excluded from most of the movement?
This group did little to nothing to help farmers and sharecroppers in rural areas in Louisiana after the Civil War
What is Bourbon Democrats