Industrial Growth
People who invest money in a product or enterprise in order to make a profit.
Entrepreneur or industrialist or capitalist
Because of their capacity to swindle the poor, shrewd capitalists became known as ...
Robber barons
A journalist who uncovers and exposes misconduct in politics or business is called a ...
Muckraker
President Wilson called for Americans to be neutral to the war in Europe. He sincerely desired peace in his country and around the world. Ultimately, he failed. What happened at sea that made him realize he had to mobilize for war?
German submarine torpedoed a British passenger ship Lusitania which killed 128 Americans. Germany is violating neutral rights.
This carmaker introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life. His Model T was a reliable car the average American could afford.
Henry Ford
taxes that would make imported goods cost more than those made locally
protective tariffs
Captains of industry
A photographer who took pictures of crowded, unsafe, rat-infested tenement buildings and published them in a book called "How the Other Half Lives."
Jacob Riis
What immediately caused Wilson to decide to enter the war?
A cultural trend in the 1920s, many Christians promote a literal interpretation of the Bible and return to traditional values.
Fundamentalism
systems that depend upon machinery to carry out tasks that were once done with hand tools
mass production
Some people believed that the nation would grow strong by allowing its most vigorous members to rise to the top. Therefore, they felt it was wrong to use public funds to assist the poor. These people believed in ....
Social Darwinism
In the book The Jungle, this author related the despair of immigrants working in Chicago's stockyards and revealed unsanitary conditions in the industry.
Upton Sinclair
In 1918, President Wilson outlined a statement of principles to Congress for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. This was called ...
Fourteen Points
Evolution.
Scopes was found guilty of breaking the law because Tennessee outlawed teaching Darwin's idea that humans derived from simpler forms of life - as opposed to the creation of humans in the Bible.
More than any other factor, the growth of the United States in the mid-to-late 1800s can be linked directly to this form of transport.
Railroads
In 1890, the federal government passed this act to regulate trusts but it was seldom enforced.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Settlement houses
True or False: The U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
Americans adopted this attitude where people wanted to protect native-born or "established" inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Nativist
The complete control of a product or service.
Monopoly
Immigrants and urban workers would live in this low-cost multifamily housing designed to squeeze in as many families as possible.
Tenements
What was the Treaty that ended World War I?
Treaty of Versailles
This system limited the number of immigrants.
Quota System
a system of consolidating many firms in the same business
Horizontal integration
(vertical integration is consolidating firms involved in all steps of a product's manufacture)
One of America's wealthiest tycoons, he was also a philanthropist. He wrote in "Wealth" that people had the right to accumulate wealth but also responsibility to give it away. He was also a steel industrialist.
Andrew Carnegie
Racism limited the goals of Progressivism for African Americans. Who were two African American leaders at the time? How were their approaches different?
Booker T. Washington - peaceably get along
W.E.B. DuBois - never cease to protest
In the 1919 Supreme Court case, Schenck v. U.S., Schenck was convicted of violating the Espionage Act for giving out pamphlets to refuse the military draft. This was a landmark decision because ...
it was a limit of free speech
This Amendment passed in 1919 forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the United States, starting the Prohibition era.
18th Amendment
a group of separate companies that are placed under the control of a single managing board in order to form a monopoly
trust
Factory workers toiled long hours - 12 hours a day, 6 days a week - in small, hot, dark and dirty workhouses known as ...
Sweatshops
The President who made Progressive reforms was also nicknamed the Trustbuster - he tried to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor.
President Theodore Roosevelt
This event was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in a neighborhood in New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
Harlem Renaissance
Factory workers tried to gain more power against employers by using the technique of negotiating as a group for higher wages or better working conditions - also known as ...
Collective bargaining
Name 3 large-scale protests by laborers in the late 1800s.
Haymarket Riot, 1886
Homestead Strike, 1892
Pullman Strike, 1893
In 1892, a new political party formed, wanting a remedy to political corruption and government ownership of railroads. Although they achieve some success, they eventually disappears after a decade. What was this party?
The Populist Party