Industry
These workplaces, common in the garment industry during the late 1800s, were known for long hours, low pay, and unsafe conditions.
What are sweatshops or factories?
Immigrants, primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe, began arriving in large numbers in the late 1800s, seeking better economic opportunities were known as this term.
Who are new immigrants?
This term describes a company that controls an entire industry, eliminating competition.
What is a monopoly?
This president, known for his "Square Deal," was an advocate for progressive reforms, including trust-busting and conservation.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 1887 law aimed to break up tribal lands and encourage Native Americans to farm like white settlers.
What is the Dawes Act?
This type of system produces large quantities of identical products quickly and efficiently.
What is mass production?
This term refers to the belief that native-born Americans are superior to immigrants, often leading to discrimination and restrictive immigration laws.
What is nativism?
He led the expansion of the American steel industry, became one of the richest men in the world and later became a well known philanthropist.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This organization, founded in 1909, aimed to fight racial discrimination and promote civil rights for African Americans.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
These were areas of land set aside by the U.S. government where many Native American tribes were forced to live.
What are reservations?
Mass production lowered the price of goods, making them more affordable for this group of people.
Who are consumers?
This law, passed in 1882, specifically targeted Chinese immigrants by prohibiting their entry into the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This law, passed in 1890, was the first federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This law, passed in 1906, aimed to ensure the safety of food and medicine by requiring government inspections and labeling.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This term refers to efforts to force Native Americans to give up their culture and adopt white American customs.
What is assimilation?
This was one major negative impact of mass production on workers.
What is job monotony or loss of craftsmanship?
Immigrants often lived in these overcrowded, poorly constructed apartment buildings, which were a common feature of urban areas in the late 1800s.
What are tenements?
This term was used to describe powerful industrialists who were seen as exploiting workers while amassing great wealth.
What are robber barons?
The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote, following decades of efforts from this movement.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
This major development connected the east and west coasts, making travel and trade faster and easier.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This group(s) were created to advocate for better wages, hours, and working condition.
What are labor unions?
The movement of wealthier individuals or families moving from crowded cities to more spacious areas outside the city center are known as....
What are suburbs?
This belief, based on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, was used in the late 1800s to justify the success of the wealthy and discourage government aid to the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
Progressives like Jane Addams focused on improving the lives of poor urban residents, especially immigrants, in this type of house.
What is a settlement house?
This 1862 law gave free land to settlers who farmed it for five years, encouraging Western migration.
What is the Homestead Act?