The Gilded Age
How a monopoly can be created.
What is horizontal integration?
This exposed horrible working and sanitary conditions.
What is The Jungle?
This greatly pushed consumerism in the 1920s.
What is advertising?
The goal of the Securities adn Exchange Commission
What is regulate the stock market?
When FDR tried to do this, the public was outraged and compared him to a king.
What is court packing?
What the Hawley-Smoot Tariff ended up forcing other countries to do.
What is raise their tariffs?
If the poor worked harder and were not so lazy they would prosper.
What is Social Darwinism?
The two laws that were passed because of a novel written during this time period.
What is the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act?
The man who ran Standard Oil.
Who is Rockefeller?
This insures your money
What is FDIC?
How FDR paid for New Deal programs
What is deficit spending?
A decline in this in the late 1920s warned that the economy was not as strong as people thought.
What is home buying?
This allowed skycrapers to be built.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Boss Tweed ran New York City by doing these two things. (name two)
What is bribery, kickbacks or controlling votes?
This trial tested what could be taught in the schools in Tennesse.
What is the Scopes Trial?
The three main groups Social Security provides for:
Who are the elderly, the disabled, and those who have lost a parent before the age of 18?
One slang term that showed Americans disliked Hoover?
What are Hoover Flags or Hoovervilles?
After WWI, demand for this decreased, hurting an essential American industry.
What are farm goods?
Buying all the means of production.
What is vertical integration or monopoly?
These two things were put into place to combat political machines and corruption.
What are the initiative and recall?
The membership of this organization rose dramatically during the 1920s.
What is the KKK?
These two New Deal programs employed millions and helped build essential infrastructure.
What are the WPA and PWA?
The three things the New Deal addressed
What is Relief, Recovery and Reform?
Three things Ford is known for.
What are higher wages, better working conditions and 40 hour work week/
No man should die wealthy.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
The three areas The Progressive Movement made change.
Social, Political and Economic.
These two men were found guilty of murder based on their political views and heritage.
Who are Sacco and Venzetti?
Why WWI veterans marched on Washington.
What is wanted their bonus early?
The three artists whose work supported the average American.
Who are Lange, Guthrie and Steinbeck?
If one looked carefully at the economy of the 1920s, one would have realized that it was not truly great but was really just this.
What is superficial prosperity?