Rise of Industry
What is lassies-faire economic policy?
When the government lets business do whatever they want.
Most workers worked ( ) days a week for ( ) hours a day.
7, and 12.
Farmers organized into ( ) in order to get better prices to ship food on rail roads.
Granges
Define: Arms Race-
Competition between nations for a superior weapons and military
What is a monopoly?
A company that has total control over a product or service.
Children were paid...
1-3 $ a week.
The People's Party was also know as the...
Populist Party
At first America didn't want to enter WWI because we were ( ).
Isolationist.
Why do factory owners want low wages?
Because it means they will get more profit.
The most common tactic that workers used to negotiate better working conditions.
Strike- Not working
From 1892-1903, ( ) black people were lynched in the South.
3,000
( ) lead a Communist revolution that took ( ) out of the war.
Lenin, Russia
The top 1% controlled ( ) of the nations wealth.
51%
How many women died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
146
Mother Jones fought against ( ), and was a champion for ( ).
Child labor, workers rights.
After WWI the Allies wanted to punish the Germans with the ( ).
Treaty of Versailles.
Mark twain called this time period the...
Gilded Age
Labor unions protested to gain what 3 things?
Better pay
Shorter hours
Safer conditions
In ( ) women got the right to vote with the ( ) amendment.
1920, 19th
WWI cost the world ( ) lives.
40 Million