The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
The theory states that businesses should be left to themselves, resulting in optimal production and prices.
What is Laissez-faire?
The God-Given right to move west and settle all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
What was Manifest Destiny?
religion started the Social Gospel
The Protestant Church
Laws enforcing segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The first industry to be fully mechanized.
What are textiles?
Head of industries and trusts
What are robber barons?
Men moved to California with the dream of finding gold and becoming rich
What was the Gold Rush?
led the social gospel movement
Walter Rauschenbusch
Uphold the constitutionality of “separate, but equal facilities” based on race.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Was revolutionary for the steel industry, and the way it was processed.
What is the Bessemer process?
Absorbed and/or destroyed competitors in Cleveland and elsewhere, and became a monopoly in oil.
Who is Rockefeller?
1862 Law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years for $10
What was the Homestead Act?
Influenced the formation of Christian democracy political ideology among Protestants and Catholics in Europe.
What did the Social Gospel movement lead to?
The adoption of sharecropping and tenant farming.
What is the South post-Civil War?
The United States thanks to the industrial revolution became this.
What is an industrial nation?
An undisputed master of the steel industry, and 1878 won the contract to build the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who is Carnegie?
Western expansion was incentivized for potential individuals through this act.
What was the homestead act?
the two major forces behind the Social Gospel movement
Protestants and Catholics
Civil Rights organization in the US, formed in 1909, with meaningful names such as W.E.B. Du Bois.
What is the NAACP?
The inventor of the lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
He was a successful businessman who used his fortune from the steamboat industry to merge local railroads into the New York Central Railroad.
Who is Vanderbilt?
This was a support system to promote farmers' social and economic needs.
What was the Grange Movement?
Draw the attention of Protestant churches to the plight of urban poor
The major goal of the Social Gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to?
Self-educated former slaves advocated for the education of African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The inventor of the telegraph.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?