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This was the philosophy held during the Gilded Age about the free market with no government regulation.
What is laissez faire?
The light bulb was invented by ______ and the telephone was invented by _______. (Correct order)
Who are Edison and Bell?
The term to describe immigrants that come from Eastern or Southern Europe, in which many were Catholic, Jewish, and did not speak English as their native language.
What is New Immigrant?
The corruption of this political machine was exposed by Thomas Nast's political cartoons.
What is the Tweed Ring or Tammany Hall?
His speech at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition caused criticism that he was an accommodationist of Jim Crow Laws in the South.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This business & business owner used ruthless tactics and eliminated all of its competition through horizontal integration. Name both.
What is Standard Oil & Rockefeller?
This process allowed steel to be produced cheaper and stronger.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This was passed due to economic competition, after the completion of the railroads, and racism in the West.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This act called for civil service exams after the assassination of a POTUS.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This group of artists' subjects included the day-to-day life of the lower working class in New York City at work and at leisure.
What is the Ashcan School?
The explanation that businessmen and others who were economically and socially successful were so because they were biologically and socially “naturally” the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
This company's mail-order catalog, the Wish Book, gave people in rural communities, including African Americans the ability to buy a wide variety of goods.
What is Sears-Roebuck?
Push factors caused a lot of immigrants to move to the United States. List 2 push factors.
What are: Displaced European farmworkers; Overcrowding and joblessness in European cities; Religious persecution in Eastern Europe
This was the name of the political party platform that called for regulations to counteract the power of the railroads and the Gold Standard.
What is the Omaha Platform or Populist Party Platform?
A Protestant religious movement that pushed for reforms for social ills, such as poverty, child labor & alcoholism.
What is the Social Gospel?
This strike led to a decline in the membership of Knights of Labor because of the bombing by an anarchist.
What is the Haymarket Strike?
Boomers know this name because it is a camera company. Generation Z know this name because it is a rapper's first name.
What is Kodak?
What are tenement houses?
This act called for the government to create a committee in Congress, to regulate trade across state lines and, regulate the prices of the railroad industry.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This person opened a settlement house in Chicago to help new immigrants and the poor. Person name & settlement house name
Who is Jane Addams & Hull House?
Correctly identify the industry of these 3 Robber Barrons in the respective order: Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt.
What are Steel, Oil, Transportation/train/steamboats?
Daily Double. Write down how much you want to wager on this answer.
What speculator watered down railroad stock in hopes that Vanderbilt would buy up the stock.
This secret organization formed in fear that the Pope was going to gain power in the US with the large influx of Catholic immigrants & they feared job competition.
What is the American Protective Association?
Williams Jennings Bryan, the 1896 presidential candidate for both the Populists Party & Democratic party, lost to this Republican president.
Due to the efforts of the labor unions for an 8-hour workday, "leisure time" activities became popular. Name 2.
What is going to city parks, amusement parks, baseball, football, boxing, golf, motion pictures, circus, and tandem bicycles?