Word Origins
Settling the West and Industrialization
Immigration and Urbanization
Politics and Reform
Famous People
100
When the wealthy use their fortunes to further social progress. Tony Stark calls himself, "genius, billionaire, playboy," and this.
What is philanthropy?
100
This is the most famous inventor of the late 1800s. He made the phonograph (an early type of record player), light bulb, electric engine, battery, and motion pictures (movies).
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Created at the height of American prejudice in the 1880s, this act barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese individuals living in the United States from gaining citizenship.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
100
This law was designed to regulate interstate trade and commerce. It was the first federal law created to control private businesses.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
100
He became famous for inventing the telephone, though he also worked on ideas for airplanes and boat
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
This American historic period from 1870 to 1900 appears to sparkle, but there is corruption and trouble underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
200
This simple method of extracting mineral ore is done by hand with tools such as picks, shovels, and pans.
What is placer mining?
200
This is a preference for native-born people and often is expressed as a desire to limit immigration.
What is nativism?
200
This movement strove to improve conditions in cities according to biblical ideas of charity and justice.
What is the Social Gospel?
200
This African-American leader believed that blacks needed voting rights in order to make changes.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
300
When you combine many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation
What is horizontal integration?
300
This is when a company owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for it’s operation to make sure they always have what they need to run their company. For example, a meat-packing company might own the cows, the slaughterhouse, and the wagons to distribute the meat.
What is vertical integration?
300
This island in New York Harbor is where European immigrants were examined and processed. Over a 60 year timespan, over 10 million immigrants passed through here.
What is Ellis Island?
300
Also known as the People's Party, this new political movement had an emphasis on political reforms and federal control of big businesses.
What is Populism?
300
His assassination excited public opinion against the spoils system.
Who is James Garfield?
400
This social philosophy states that competition and natural selection occur in human society, just as the concept of evolution was applied to animals.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
This act was passed in 1862 to encourage settlement of the Great Plains. For $10, a farmer bought up to 160 acres, and after 5 years of farming, they could receive the title to the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
These multi-family apartments were often dark and crowded. Many immigrants ended up living in these because they could not afford anything better.
What is a tenement?
400
This law set up a civil service system with the appointment of government jobs to individuals based on examinations.
What is the Pendleton Act?
400
Daily Double! This African-American leader felt that economic freedom would eventually give blacks the social equality they desired.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
Daily Double! A French word, meaning ‘let do’; an economic theory that the government should not interfere with the economy
What is laissez-faire?
500
Name two of the reasons that contributed to the United States' industrial success.
What are natural resources/oil production/large workforce/free enterprise/new inventions/?
500
These informal political groups were designed to gain and keep power in a city. Despite frequent corruption and favoritism, they provided jobs and housing to many people.
What is a political machine?
500
This movement in art and literature drifted away from Romanticism and attempted to see things as they really were
What is realism?
500
This African-American woman spoke out fervently against lynching and unlawful justice in the South.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
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