Big Business/Industrialization
100 – What industry became America’s first big business?
What are Railroads?
100 – What event marked the symbolic closing of the frontier in 1890?
What are Census Bureau announcement?
100 – What crop dominated the Southern economy?
What is Cotton?
100 – What problem did many factory workers face?
What are long hours, low wages, unsafe conditions?
100 – From where did “new immigrants” mainly come?
What is Southern & Eastern Europe
200 – Name one industrial leader of the Gilded Age.
Who is Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, or Morgan
200 – What invention helped fence farmland cheaply?
What is Barbed wire?
200 – What system kept farmers trapped in debt?
What is Sharecropping / tenant farming
200 – Name one major strike of the period.
What is the Homestead Strike / Pullman Strike
200 – Why did immigrants move to cities?
What are Factory jobs?
300 – What practice combined all steps of production?
What is Vertical integration?
300 – What railroad connected the nation coast to coast?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
300 – What laws enforced racial separation?
What are Jim Crow laws?
300 – What union focused on skilled workers?
What is the The American Federation of Labor (AFL)
300 – What were crowded urban apartments called?
Tenements
400 – What belief argued government should stay out of business?
What is Laissez-faire capitalism?
400 – What battle marked the end of major Native resistance?
What is Wounded Knee?
400 – Who encouraged African Americans to build economic strength first?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400 – Why did government often side with business in strikes?
What is the Fear of disorder, socialism, economic disruption
400 – What organizations provided services to immigrants?
What are Settlement houses (e.g., Hull House)
500 – What business strategy eliminated competition by cutting prices?
What is Predatory Pricing?
500 – What movement aimed to protect natural lands?
What is Conservation movement?
500 – Who demanded immediate civil rights and equality?
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
500 – What tactic did workers use to force negotiations?
What is a strike?
500 – What political groups traded services for votes?
What are Political machines?