Gilded Age Part 1
The Gilded Age
What is the period after Reconstruction?
Jim Crow Laws
What are any laws that enforced racial segregation?
Change or Reform
What the meaning of the word Progressive?
Increasing business competition
What was the primary focus of breaking up monopolies?
Suffragist
What is a person, regardless of gender, who advocates for the right to vote?
The name of the author who named the Gilded Age.
Who is Mark Twain?
Liassez-Faire
What is the hands-off approach in business?
Addressing the social and economic problems
What is a primary goal of the Progressive Movement?
Andrew Carnegie
Who was the steel tycoon during the Progressive Era?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who was the Progressive President?
More than 50%.
What percentage of wealth was owned by the top 1%?
Boll Weevil
What is an insect that destroyed cotton crops in the South?
16th Amendment
What is the amendment that established an income tax?
Transcontinental Trains
What is promoted time zones during the Progressive Era?
17th Amendment
What is the amendment that allowed voters to directly elect US Senators?
Rapid Industrial Growth
What was a key characteristic of the Gilded Age?
Plessy v Ferguson
What was the separate but equal policy?
Muckrakers
What are investigative journalists?
Prohibition
What is the prevention of the manufacture and sale of alcohol?
Food and Drug Administration
What is created to inspect food and medicine?
John D. Rockefeller
Who was the Oil Tycoon during the Gilded Age?
The rich and the poor
There was a massive gap between which two groups during the Gilded Age?
19th Amendment
What is the amendment that gave women the right to vote?
Monopoly
What is the complete control of a market or industry by one company or a group of companies?
Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt
Who are the women who led the suffrage movement during the Progressive Era?