Standard 1 Review
What is the policy where Britain ignored the colonies before the Revolution?
Salutary Neglect
What act passed helped with stablizing the banking system?
Federal Reserve Act
What amendment started the direct election of senators?
What is the difference between vertical and horizontal monopolies?
Vertical: own all parts of the production
Horizontal: own all of one step of the production
The first immigration policy banned/excluded what group of people?
Chinese
The economic system during colonial times, where the mother country tried to export more than it imported.
Mercantalism
Known journalists who exposed corruption in corporations, government, business, and social issues. Upton Sinclair is a good example with his book the Jungle, leading the to Meat Inspection Act of 190.
Muckrakers
The amendment that established the graduated income tax.
16th Amendment
The type of government policy of the economy of this time that allowed for the businesses to control the economy.
Laissez-faire
What was a pull factor for immigrants, especially to move out west?
US Homestead Act of 1862
A system where workers agreed to work for a master for 4 to 7 years in exchange for passage, room, board, and lodging.
Indentured servitude
Act that was used to break apart "bust" trusts and monopolies to allow for competition in the economy. And affected John D. Rockefeller the most.
Sherman Antitrust Act
18th Amendment
What is an effect of the rapid industrialization?
What technology linked the west to the east during this time?
Transcontinental Railroad
Movement in 1730s to 1740s resulting in a revival of religious beliefs among churchgoers and contributed to two later movements in which religion heavily influenced American society
The First Great awakening
What Supreme Court case established separate but equal/segregation as legal?
Plessy v Ferguson
The Amendment that allowed women the right to vote
19th Amendment
Why were labor unions created?
to collective bargain for better working conditions, better pay and less hours.
What is the difference between the Social Gospel and Social Darwinism?
Social Gospel: help the poor
Social Darwinism: the poor will die out
What region of the colonies was more likely to grow cash crops for money? (New England, Middle or Southern)
Name a colony in the region.
Southern: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia
Settlement houses in the US were established in 1889 by Jane Addams in Chicago, Illinois.
Hull House
Progressive Era Amendment
Why did most immigrants settle in urban areas?
What is the name of the apartment building in which several families rent rooms, often with little sanitation or safety?
Industrial jobs
Tenement housing
What is the term for political groups in control of the government that would promise business contracts, government jobs, and money for immigrants in exchange for votes?
Political Machines