The Growth of Corporations
The three major industrial developments during this age were...
Railroads, steel, and oil
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Immigrants would enter the U.S. through Immigration stations at either...
Angel Island or Ellis Island
This city is home to the first skyscraper
Chicago
The goal of Progressivism is to...
fix social problems through reform
A company that becomes managed by a board rather than by a single owner.
trust
Groups that protected the interest of workers are...
Name some push-pull factors that increased immigration into the U.S.
Poverty, religious discrimination, and disease were factors that pushed them from their countries. Economic opportunities and greater freedom pulled immigrants to the U.S. (many did not find that)
As cities grew, this became the main form of public transportation
Streetcars
This became a major problem in cities and led to health problems and disease
Overpopulation
What is a patent?
a license that gives someone the sole right to make and sell something/invention.
Strikes pressure employers to improve working conditions by....
Refusing to work causing employers to lose money.
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
Preventing Chinese immigrants from working in the U.S.
Jim Crow Laws target..
African Americans
Assimilation
Which transportation route is most associated with the Industrial Revolution?
The Transcontinental Railroad
DAILY DOUBLE: What was the first labor union and what made it unique?
The Knights of Labor; they pushed for an 8 hour workday to replace the 10 - 12 hour day.
Many of these Immigrants lived in...
tenements
Cities developed in order to...
Meet the needs of growing populations
Two African-American leaders who responded to segregation laws - but in different ways
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Known as a muckracker, writing exposès. Most famously for calling out John D. Rockefeller's practices.
Define "Laissez-Faire Economics"
Business practice that allowed for child labor. Government rarely interferes in the free market and business choose how they operate, with little or no oversight.
Who is Jane Addams? What does NAACP stand for? ACLU?
Activist and founder of the Hull House. Also aided in founded these organizations - NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
What was the main ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson?
"separate but equal"
DAILY DOUBLE: Define the 15th, 16th, 17th, and the 19th Amendment
15th: African American men to vote
16th: Income tax
17th: Senators elected by popular vote
19th: Women's right to vote