Industrialization
These are the four factors that led to the industrialization of America.
What are abundant resources, transportation, technology, and laissez-faire economics?
This term was used by monopolies to justify their existence - "survival of the fittest" but applied to humans.
What is social Darwinism?
These two industries helped bring American settlers to the West.
What are mining and cattle ranching?
This was the political philosophy of restoring the government to the control of the "plain people." It advocated for getting rid of the Gold Standard and passing pro-worker and farmer reforms.
What is populism?
People began moving into this kind of place where railroads, factories, and luxuries were more easily available.
What are cities?
These types of businesses control most of their specific industry, allowing them to raise prices to whatever they want.
What are monopolies?
Name three tactics that labor unions used in order to get companies to meet their demands.
What are closed shops, strikes, and collective bargaining?
This region of the United States held much of the flat grasslands that ranchers would use to raise their cattle.
What is the Mid-west/Great Plains?
These types of laws brought about the rise of segregation in the South after the Reconstruction Era.
What are Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws?
This system describes the practices of elected officials appointing their close friends and allies government positions instead of more qualified candidates. James Garfield was killed for not participating in this system.
These groups attempted to fight for better working conditions, higher pay, and an end to child labor. Some of these groups welcomed all workers, while others focused solely on white skilled male laborers.
What are labor/trade unions?
Name 3 tactics that businesses used to limit the power of labor unions.
What are blacklists, yellow dog contracts, scabs and open shops?
This act destroyed the tribal identity of Native Americans by allocating them private property to farm, ending the hunter-gatherer lifestyle of Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act (1887)?
Farmers were suffering from low crop prices and were losing money, so they wanted to replace this.
What is the gold standard?
These are the four big problems facing cities during the Gilded Age.
These types of businesses allowed owners to own shares in multiple companies. It allowed monopolies to get around laws that prevented businesses from becoming too big.
What are trusts?
This article's philosophy states that it is the job of the rich of society to distribute their wealth to the people of America.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
These institutions were set up in order to train Native American children to learn American and Western values. They were also designed to strip children of their Native American identity and heritage.
What are boarding schools?
This monopoly kept farmers from being able to transport their crops from one place to another because they raised the transportation rates too high.
What are railroad monopolies?
People often moved into cities because they wanted these four things (name 3).
What are jobs, better education for their children, luxuries, and access to railroads?
This was the government's economic policy towards businesses during the era of Industrialization - it is French for "to let be."
What is laissez-faire economics?
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)?
What is the bison (bison bison)?
This lawsuit saw a man who was 1/8th African American sue after he was arrested for buying a ticket for a white train car, leading to the phrase "separate but equal" defining segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This act replaced the Spoils System with the Merit System, which required government officials to take a competency exam to qualify for their jobs.