Capital & Labor
Describe the Second Industrial Revolution.
Tech advancements that shifted american information,geography and life
The Frontier Thesis proposed what?
The frontier was now gone
How did urbanization shape city life?
a) improved quality of life
b) poverty remained
Define the concept of “American Empire.”
America's status as a global power
Who were the Muckrakers?
Investigative journalists who exposed corruption
The “Gilded Age” describes what?
An era of opulence and poverty
Who were the Exodusters?
Black southerners who fled economic hardship
Define “Birds of Passage.”
Temporary immigrant laborers from eastern and southern Europe
“Big Stick” diplomacy describes what?
Teddy Roosevelt's approach to foreign policies
What is significant about Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?
It dramatized waged labor but drew attention to the meat packing industry
Define “Robber Baron.”
Pejorative for wealthy 19th century industrialists
Describe the significance of the Transcontinental Railroad.
a) Accelerated westward expansion
b) Developement of the American west
c) Cut coast-to-coast travel time
What is significant about How the Other Half Lives?
Revealed the conditions of urban slums
Describe The Roosevelt Corollary.
Expanded the Monroe doctrine by policing hemispheric actions
Describe the Temperance movement.
Led to the short lived period of Prohibition
What is significant about the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)?
It restricts anticompetitive conduct in the market place
Buffalo Bill’s traveling show was a product of what?
Romantacized depiction of the west
The slogan “The New South” expressed what?
The vision of an industrialized south.
What is significant about the Spanish-American War?
The U.S. emerged as a global power
What is significant about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
Led to labor and health reforms
What is Taylorism?
Systems of industrial management
Describe the significance of the 1862 Homestead Act.
It accelerated settlement of the western U.S.
Describe Party Politics
Boss rule and patronage drove political machines.
What is significant about the Philippine-American War?
Established American power in the Pacific
Describe the Child Labor reform movement.
Photography was its chief method of investigation