What did business tycoons form to eliminate competition? Industries like steel, banking and oil became BIG and controlled prices when these organizations were created
TRUSTS, MONOPOLIES or CARTELS
100
Tactics business owners used against union workers included.....(name one)
BLACKLIST (not hiring people suspected of being in a union) and YELLOW DOG CONTRACTS (making workers sign a paper stating they would not join a union)
100
To limit immigrants the 3% QUOTA ACT was passed. This kept immigration a 3% of people from a country that entered the previous year. Fewer were allowed in through ELLIS and ANGEL ISLAND. (TRUE OR FALSE)
TRUE (it was the funnel effect of many wanting in, but few were let in)
100
What did MUCKRAKERS of the PROGRESSIVE ERA write about and name a muckraker.
ABUSES and CORRUPTION in business and politics. IDA TARBELL or UPTON SINCLAIR
100
Immigrants usually supported "corrupt" political machines in large cities because the political bosses provided jobs and favors to foreigners. TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE, they often needed help to start their new lif in the United States
200
Business tycoons who used "ruthless" business tactics against competing companies were called..(not a positive term)
ROBBER BARONS (they were called "captains of industry" when people liked what they did like creating jobs or philanthropy)
200
Strikes at HOMESTEAD STEEL and PULLMAN RAILROAD showed the workers would use "force" and fight back against business owners. Violence sometimes occurred (TRUE or FALSE)
TRUE
200
The PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACT and MEAT INSPECTION LAWS were created during the PROGRESSIVE ERA as a result of MUCKRAKER LITERATURE written by Upton Sinclair ("The Jungle"). true or false
TRUE (people were sicked by what they read)
200
After the TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD was completed, were freight rates charged businesses RAISED OR LOWERED ?
LOWERED because of competition and the government passing the INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT to regulate rates
200
Name the SOCIAL WELFARE (helping the poor) ORGANIZATION that helped the people living in ethnic neighborhoods or slums during the INDUSTRIAL AGE
SETTLEMENT HOUSES, including HULL HOUSE in Chicago
300
Name the government "hands off" policy that allowed business and the economy to grow during the Industrial Age. (the government did not limit business)
LAISSEZ FAIRE
300
During the early years of the INDUSTRIAL AGE, immigrants were welcomed because of a labor shortage of people willing to do the "hard and difficult" jobs. (true or false)
TRUE, Asian immigrants help build the transcontinental railroad and European worked in coal mines and steel mills
300
The biggest result of the PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT was that the government began to regulate BIG BUSINESS more....(true or false)
TRUE the time of laissez faire was over. Businesses had to offer better pay and working conditions. Social welfare programs were started (Social Security). Union and Collective Bargaining was allowed by law
300
name the TWO processes of NEGOTIATIONS between unions and business owners, one involves a third party "judge"
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING and ARBITRATION
300
The MOVEMENT during the INDUSTRIAL AGE that corrected problems by passing new LAWS was known as ....
PROGRESSIVE ERA
400
What "weapon" could unions use against companies or factories to force owners to improve working conditions and pay.
THE STRIKE
400
Many European Immigrants (first wave from western Europe and second wave from eastern and southern Europe settled near the east coast of the U.S. because that is where the jobs were ? The first wave were also called "OLD" and could understand English. The second wave was called new and could not understand English. TRUE or FALSE
TRUE, there was no need to go anywhere else jobs could be gotten near Ellis Island. These cities also had ethnic GHETTOS for the immigrants to live
400
Theodore Roosevelt created what policy to protect the wilderness and natural resources ?
CONSERVATION (national parks and forests were started all over the country)
400
Name the system where politicians could give jobs to friends and family after winning an elected office ? Many considered this a corruption of the GILDED AGE.
SPOILS SYSTEM, also called PATRONAGE
400
The 19th Amendment is more commonly known as what ? (This pleased most women)
SUFFRAGE
500
Some union leaders said immigrants would work for less pay and would take jobs from Americans. True or False
TRUE, this caused some NATIVIST feelings against foreigners
500
Because of industrialization and factory growth, cities became larger and full of problems. NAME a problem associated with BIG CITIES
Includes CRIME, CROWD, DISEASE, TENEMENTS, SANITATION, NOISE, GARBAGE, POOR CITY SERVICES etc
500
SUFFRAGE (the woman vote) being more accepted across the country. Was it because women were voting in some states ???? (YES OR NO)
YES (along with serving in the military during world war one) Some used the argument that women would become more MASCULINE against suffrage
500
Name the law that created the CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM that ended the SPOILS SYSTEM ?
PENDLETON ACT, people wanting a government job had to now pass a TEST
500
Progressives wanted the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to create SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS (like health care, disability for the injured and unemployment) to help the NEEDY. TRUE OR FALSE