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?
Labor union for unskilled workers, including women and African Americans
What is the Knights of Labor?
Laws enforcing segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
These kinds of Europeans started coming in large numbers during the Gilded Age.
Head of industries and trusts, described by a labor union.
What are robber barons?
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?
Reform movement that advocated for more parks like Central Park
What is the City Beautiful Movement?
Uphold the constitutionality of “separate, but equal facilities” based on race.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This was the first major immigration restriction in our country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Railroads, the telegraph and horizontal/vertical integration all contributed to this.
What is a national market?
What is Wounded Knee?
Populist Democrat candidate for president in 1896
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Self-educated former slaves advocated for the education of African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This is how political parties tried to help immigrants in exchange for votes.
What are political machines?
Absorbed and/or destroyed competitors in Cleveland and elsewhere, and became a monopoly in oil.
Who is Rockefeller?
This was a support system to promote farmers' social and economic needs.
What was the Grange Movement?
religion started the Social Gospel
What is the Protestant Church?
This person came up with the "New South"
Who is Henry Grady?
This person started Hull House to help immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
An undisputed master of the steel industry, and 1878 won the contract to build the Brooklyn Bridge.
Who is Carnegie?
This school sought to assimilate Native Americans.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
Author of "How the Other Half Lives"
Who is Jacob Riis?
Civil Rights organization in the US, formed in 1909, with meaningful names such as W.E.B. Du Bois.
What is the NAACP?
Labor unions called immigrants this because they worked during strikes.
What are "scabs?"