What is a business that is controlled by a large number of people--investors?
What is a trust?
The wave of "new immigrants" to America after 1880 came from this region.
What is southern/eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, Russia) and/or China?
This was the name of investigative journalists in the Progressive Era that exposed problems in society.
Who are muckrakers?
When a one person or group of people maximize their profits by eliminating the competition in their industry.
What is monopoly?
Poorly constructed apartment buildings that were overcrowded and unsanitary, as landlords sought to maximize living space and profit.
What is a dumbbell tenement?
He created the 8 hour work day and continued breaking up trusts, like the President before him had done.
Who is Taft?
The first major law in U.S. history to prevent immigration from a specific country and banned Chinese laborers from entering the United States for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This was the founder of Hull House and a major leader in the settlement house movement to aid the urban poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
This muckraker photographed the tenements of New York City, showing the world the reality of poor urban living.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The idea that the wealthy and the people with high social status would do their duty to give back and help the less fortunate.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
The political boss of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party's political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th-century New York City and State.
Who is Boss Tweed?
Secretive anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic political party that rose during the Gilded Age.
Who is the Know-Nothing Party?
Which amendment banned alcohol?
What is the 18th amendment?
This process involves owning all means of production, from resource extraction to distribution & sale. (Ex: Carnegie steel)
What is vertical integration?
This is the philosophy of government having a “hands off” approach to the economy and trade between individuals and society.
What is laissez faire?
This political party supported bimetallism and was fueled by farmers' discontent with tariffs.
What is the Populist party?
Chinese and Irish immigrant laborers worked on this industrial project connecting New York to San Francisco, cutting travel time from six weeks down to six days!
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This was the name of the publication that exposed the horrid conditions in meatpacking facilities in the late 1800s.
What is "The Jungle?"
He owned 90% of the oil industry.
Who is Rockefeller?
Economic idea for companies to rise up and become so prominent, it relied on the sacrifices of the smaller companies.
What is the American Beauty Rose?
A political and social attitude that favors native-born inhabitants over immigrants, and a belief that some races are superior to others.
What is nativism?
Which amendment provides for the direct election of senators?
What is the 17th amendment?