Population Trends and Impacts
During the early 1900s Americans were worried that "native born" Americans were losing jobs to immigrants and that new immigrants were less WASP-Y. Therefore the U.S. placed ______________ on immigration.
What are RESTRICTIONS?
This movement was made by a group of midwestern farmers who organized in an effort to improve economic and social conditions, serving to educate farmers, regulate railroads, and form cooperatives to help farmers make a profit.
What is the GRANGER movement?
This Act of 1887 forced Native Americans onto reservations.
What is the DAWES Act?
When one business or a combination of companies take control of a market for certain goods or services in order to control pricing.
What is a MONOPOLY?
The hands-off approach to regulating business is know as this (no government regulation).
What is LAISSEZ-FAIRE?
Dark (windowless), unsanitary, disease ridden and crowded housing that was a result of large numbers of people moving to cities during the industrial revolution is called this.
What is a TENEMENT?
After the explosion of the USS Maine, this type of journalism pushed the U.S. public toward supporting a war with Spain over Cuban independence.
What is YELLOW journalism?
This major railroad company violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by forming a monopoly and was ordered to dissolve in this 1904 court case against the U.S.
What is the NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY?
These business owners got rich using monopolistic and unethical business practices; exploited workers and did not care about any form of consumer protection.
What is a ROBBER BARON?
This is a believe that America is for citizens born in the United States and favors those citizens because the believe is that America is for Americans.
What is NATIVISM?
This urban surge of movement between the years of 1850-1900, from rural areas to cities due to the rise of industrialization, technological advances, and immigration is referred to as the Urban ______________ Surge.
What is the Urban POPULATION Surge?
This movement exposed the evil and corruption in society and was a result of the Industrial Revolution; attempted to reform the ills of society.
(Hint: The Jungle)
What is the PROGRESSIVE movement?
The Supreme Court ruled against this socialist leader for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 by distributing leaflets urging resistance against the military's draft; established clear and present danger test for free speech restrictions because his speech was ruled to present a clear and present danger; upheld lower court's ruling
Who is SCHNECK?
(Schenck vs. the United States?)
Presidents T. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson were presidents who changed the course of the federal government in relation to big business by becoming trustbusters and used the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act to break up monopolies during this era.
What is the PROGRESSIVE Era?
Industrialists believed in this theory when they believed they were justified in accruing so much wealth and power because they were at the top. In nature this is know as survival of the fittest.
What is SOCIAL DARWINISM?
The rapid growth of this lead to the following impacts on the United States: increase in production of goods, increase in materialism, an in crease in immigration to the U.S. and an overall stronger country
What is INDUSTRIAL growth?
This muckraker exposed the intense racism toward African Americans in the south; exposed the brutality of lynching; was a suffragist as well
Who is IDA B. WELLS?
This 1917 act limited free speech during war time making it a crime to obstruct military recruitment or to incite insubordination in the armed forces.
What is the ESPIONAGE Act?
Government would side with big business owners and not labor workers so that business would be able to make profits and the US would continue to grow during the time period known as this.
What is the GILDED AGE?
This was Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy of trying to negotiate with nations before we use military strength to threaten and intimidate them.
What is BIG STICK DIPLOMACY?
This type of expansion had the following impacts on the U.S.: decrease in Native American tribes in terms of culture and population AND an increase in transportation and communication out of necessity.
What is WESTWARD expansion?
This muckraker described the plight of the urban poor and wrote How the Other Half Lives.
Who is JACOB RIIS?
This 1918 Act makes it a crime to be "disloyal" or to use abusive language against the government, the flag, the military, or the constitution during WWI.
What is the SEDITION Act?
To combat poor working conditions, low wages and long hours, workers formed these during the latter half of the 19th century
What are UNIONS?
(Or they unionized, verb form:))
This political party was formed in the late 1800s by Western Farmers to organize to improve their social and economic conditions, working toward regulation of railroads and more political rights for famers.
What is the POPULIST PARTY?