Gilded Age Politics
A group of people who fight for better pay and working conditions:
What are Labor Unions?
The wave of "new immigrants" to America after 1880 came from this region.
What is southern/eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, Russia) and/or China?
This was the first nationwide labor union, open to all workers. Hint: "Higher Heights, Montview..."
Who were the Knights of Labor?
This process involves owning all means of production, from resource extraction to distribution & sale. This was utilized by Andrew Carnegie to dominate the steel industry.
What is vertical integration?
This black intellectual took a more conservative approach to Civil Rights and believed the path to racial equality was through working with white people. He noted that AA's should "cast down their bucket" to accept their place in society.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
As a result of this war, the U.S. gains Guam, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Farmers often felt like they were taken advantage of by this industry (by overcharging):
Who is the railroad industry?
Squalid housing situations in large cities where large families would often live in confined quarters. What are these housing units called?
What is Tenement Houses?
This labor union, led by Eugene Debs, which sought to unite all of the workers in any industry of the world. Largely promoted socialist ideals of "equality" and "shared ownership" to all workers, rather than the bosses.
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?
What is the name for EACH of the laws that were established in an effort to break up monopolies?
What are the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts?
This muckraker photographed the tenements of New York City, showing the world the reality of poor urban living.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This organization was founded in 1909 in the midst of the Progressive era to achieve racial equality as a result of the Niagra Movement. W.E.B. DuBois was one of its founders.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Who were the three "Progressive Presidents"?
Who is Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
A form of intense nationalism that promotes imperialist ideologies. Remember, Mr. Arnesen said this is one of his favorite words!
What is Jingoism?
As a result of discontent from both farmers and workers, this political party formed in an effort to help the "common man".
What is the Populist or "People's Party"?
Jane Addams promoted this movement to solve the issues facing poor urban immigrants.
Similar to Homeless Shelters.
What is the Settlement House Movement?
Name at TWO Progressive Era amendment and what each did:
16th: income tax
17th: direct election of Senators
18th: prohibition of alcohol
19th: women's suffrage