Big business and industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This industrialist created Standard Oil and became one of the richest men in U.S. history.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This labor union was led by Samuel Gompers and focused on skilled workers.
What is Ellis Island?
This location in New York processed millions of immigrants from Europe.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This amendment allowed citizens to directly vote for U.S. senators.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This journalist wrote The Jungle, exposing meatpacking conditions.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This steel tycoon used vertical integration to control production.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This strike in 1892 involved steelworkers and was violently broken by Pinkertons.
What are tenements?
This type of housing was overcrowded and unsanitary in urban areas.
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What is the 19th Amendment?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
Who is Jane Addams?
This female reformer worked to improve conditions in settlement houses like Hull House.
What is vertical integration?
This practice involves one company controlling all steps of production from raw materials to sales.
What is the Pullman Strike?
What is the Pullman Strike?
What is Tammany Hall?
This political machine in New York City helped immigrants but was known for corruption.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This president was known as a “trust buster.”
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This muckraker exposed corruption in Standard Oil.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This law, passed in 1890, aimed to break up monopolies but was weakly enforced at first.
What are the Knights of Labor?
This radical labor group included both skilled and unskilled workers and supported strikes.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This reformer exposed poor urban conditions in his book How the Other Half Lives.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This act regulated food and drugs after public outrage over unsafe products.
What are muckrakers?
This term refers to journalists who exposed problems in society.
What is interlocking directorates?
This system allowed powerful bankers like J.P. Morgan to control industries by placing allies on company boards.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This event in 1886 hurt the labor movement after a bomb exploded during a protest in Chicago.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This 1882 law restricted immigration from China.
What is recall?
This system allows voters to remove elected officials before their term ends.
Who is Carrie Nation?
This Progressive supported prohibition and moral reform movements.