Gilded Age Giants
This man created the Standard Oil Company and used "Horizontal Integration," buying out or controlling a majority of stock in competitors.
Rockefeller
This investigative journalist exposed the unethical business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
Ida Tarbell
The general timeframe, roughly spanning the 1890s through the 1920s, that focused on social activism and political reform.
What is the Progressive Era?
The notorious political machine in NYC led by Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
President Theodore Roosevelt earned this nickname for breaking up large, harmful monopolies.
What is the Trust-Buster?
This man loaned the U.S. government around $70 million in 1895 when gold was draining from the treasury at a dangerous rate.
J.P Morgan
She founded Hull House in Chicago, a famous settlement house that provided social services, education, and healthcare to poor immigrants.
Jane Addams?
This political reform allowed citizens to propose new laws by petition.
What is the Initiative?
Risky Double: Make the Basket for 500, Miss and Lose 500
This 1906 act required accurate labeling of ingredients in food and drugs and outlawed the sale of mislabeled goods.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
The technique used by Andrew Carnegie to control every step of the steel-making process, from raw material to finished product, to eliminate the middle man.
Vertical Integration
She fought for child labor reform and better working conditions for women.
Florence Kelley?
The 17th Amendment, ratified in 1913, provided for the direct election of these officials
U.S. Senators
The name given to the late 19th century by Mark Twain, who meant the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, granted this right.
What is women's suffrage (or the right to vote)?
At his peak this man owned 90% of railroads in the U.S
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Famous Muckraker who worked undercover in the meat packing industry named ________ published a novel called _________
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
This political reform allowed citizens to remove an elected official from office before their term expired.
What is the Recall?
In Urban Areas, Many Lived in ____________ which were poorly ventilated and shared between many individuals
dumbbell tenements
This 1913 amendment established a federal income tax to generate government revenue.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This philosophy asserts that the poor remain poor through a lack of personal initiative or other character flaws, and often opposed the ideas of the Gospel of Wealth.
What is Social Darwinism?
Lincoln Steffens Published a novel called _____ to expose political corruptions.
The Shame of the Cities
This reform allowed voters, rather than party bosses, to choose candidates for general elections.
What is the Direct Primary?
The first measure passed by Congress in 1890 to prohibit trusts, though its vague wording made it ineffective at first.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1906 act mandated federal inspection of meatpacking plants, directly responding to the conditions exposed in The Jungle.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?