Industrialization
This word means to mass production of goods using machines in factories.
Industrialization
This word means the growth of cities over time.
Urbanization
These people investigated and exposed societal problems during the Gilded Age.
Muckrakers
This war was fought between the Union and Confederacy in the 1860s.
The American Civil War
This person issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 during the height of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
What is it called when one company has complete control over an industry?
A monopoly
"New" Immigrants (late 1800s and early 1900s) typically came from where?
Southern and Eastern Europe
This word means to make changes in order to improve society.
Reform
What was the major cause of sectionalism in the United States during the Antebellum period?
The expansion of slavery into western territories
He was the third President of the United States and purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
Thomas Jefferson
In response to low pay and dangerous working conditions, industrial workers in the US formed what?
Labor unions
This muckraking photo-journalist exposed the horrific living conditions of New York City's poor in the book How the Other Half Lives.
Jacob Riis
He was a muckraker whose novel The Jungle provoked outrage at the meat-packing industry and led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Upton Sinclair
This was America's first form of national government.
The Articles of Confederation
She was a progressive activist who formed the National Women's Party and picketed the White House to support Women's Suffrage.
Alice Paul
This is a type of business organization that sells shares (or stocks) directly to the public.
This word is synonymous with anti-immigration feelings and attitudes during the Gilded Age.
Nativism
This person was the first progressive president who called his presidential agenda the Square Deal.
Teddy Roosevelt
This compromise (in 1820) temporarily solved the issue of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase.
The Missouri Compromise
H was the first Secretary of Treasury and helped establish the financial stability of the US as a new nation.
Alexander Hamilton
This person monopolized the production of steel in the United States and became a self-made millionaire.
Andrew Carnegie
What is it called when an immigrant or group of immigrants adopt the mainstream cultural values of the United States.
Assimilation
This was the first progressive law that gave the government the power of break up monopolies that harmed the public good.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This was a religious revival that occurred in the 1830s and 1840s that led to various reform movements in the Antebellum period.
The Second Great Awakening
These people were leaders of Congress during Reconstruction and wanted to protect the citizenship rights of African Americans in the South.
Radical Republicans