The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
Head of industries and trusts who mistreated their workers and amassed great fortunes
What are robber barons?
Men moved to California with the dream of finding gold and becoming rich
What was the Gold Rush?
His muckraking book, How the Other Half Lives, brought attention to the plight of urban tenements
Who was Jacob Riis
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?
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?
This movement and philosophy applied Christian ethics to address social problems
What was the Social Gospel movement
Laws enforcing segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The first industry to be fully mechanized.
What are textiles?
Who is John 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?
Jane Addams helped to found this movement to address the problems faced by immigrants in cities.
What was the Settlement House movement (Hull House)
What was the development of share-cropping and tenant farming
The United States thanks to the industrial revolution became this.
What is an industrial nation?
An undisputed master of the steel industry, known for his philanthropy, but also his cruel treatment of his workers
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Western expansion was incentivized for potential individuals through this act.
What was the homestead act?
Farmers wanted the government to remove this in order to help them with their financial problems
What was the gold standard
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 Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This was a support system to promote farmers' social and economic needs.
What was the Grange Movement?
This writer sought to bring attention to the issue of Rockefeller's oil monopoly
Who was Ida Tarbell
Self-educated former slave advocated for the technical and vocational education of African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The inventor of the telegraph.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?