Gilded Age Politics
Labor Issues
Rise of Big Business
Urbanization
Progressive Reforms
100
This was the name of laws in the South that were aimed at separating the races.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
Located next door to factories, these were owned by industrial companies and housed factory workers, providing them with basic services.
What are company towns?
100
This was the method introduced in America by Andrew Carnegie for mass-producing affordable, high quality steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
100
The wave of "new immigrants" to America after 1880 came from this region.
What is southern/eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, Russia) and/or China?
100
This was the name of investigative journalists in the Progressive Era that exposed problems in society.
Who are muckrakers?
200
This law was passed in response to nativist fears of Chinese immigrants.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
200
This was the first nationwide labor union, open to all workers.
Who were the Knights of Labor?
200
This process involves owning all means of production, from resource extraction to distribution & sale.
What is vertical integration?
200

This was the name of the publication that exposed the horrid conditions in meatpacking facilities in the late 1800s.

What is "The Jungle?"

200

This black intellectual took a more conservative approach to Civil Rights and believed the path to racial equality was through education & economic success.

Who is Booker T. Washington?

300
The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established this doctrine, which permitted segregation in the U.S.
What is "separate but equal" facilities?
300
This late 19th-century labor union was led by Samuel Gompers and emphasized "bread and butter" unionism.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
300
This industry was the largest customer for steel.
Who is the railroad industry?
300

This was the immigration processing facility in San Francisco where thousands of Chinese came through in the late 1800s.

What is Angel Island?

300
This was the founder of Hull House and a major leader in the settlement house movement to aid the urban poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
400
This is the philosophy of government having a “hands off” approach to the economy and trade between individuals and society.
What is "laissez-faire?"
400
This violent labor incident in Chicago caused labor union membership to decrease in the late 19th century after a bomb was thrown during the protests.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
400
This was the nickname given to industrialists that took advantage of others and used ruthless tactics to achieve great wealth.
Who are robber barons?
400
Known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," this inventor held over 1000 patents, including system for distributing electrical power.
Who is Thomas Edison?
400

This organization was founded in 1909 in the midst of the Progressive era to achieve racial equality.

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

500
George Plunkitt was a boss from this New York City political machine.
What is Tammany Hall?
500
This labor union sought to improve working conditions for their members through radical methods such as turning over the control of businesses to the government and overthrowing capitalism.
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?
500
This scandal involved the sale of railroad company stock to U.S. politicians in exchange for land rights to build transcontinental railroad.
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?
500

This muckraker photographed the tenements of New York City, showing the world the reality of poor urban living.

Who is Jacob Riis?

500
This organization was founded by Carrie Chapman Catt & Susan B. Anthony after combining two similar organizations.
What is the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
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