Politics
This man was president during the Spanish American War.
Who is William McKinley?
The process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society into an industrial one.
What is industrialization?
This term was used for the businessmen and bankers who dominated the United States industries during the 19th century.
What is "Robber Barons"?
Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
What is a monopoly?
An organization that represents the rights and interests of workers to their employers, for example in order to improve working conditions or wages
What is a Labor Union?
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born individuals.
What is Nativism?
The social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban.
What is urbanization?
This Scottish American industrialist led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.
The act of giving back or helping people, usually through donating money
What is philanthropy?
This law forbade Chinese immigrants from coming to the United States to reduce job competition
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This policy was based on the idea that governments and the law should not interfere with business, finance, or the conditions of people's working lives.
What is Laissez-Faire?
This theory maintained that societies evolved by a natural process through which most fit members survived and demonstrated their fitness by gathering property, wealth, and social status (i.e. 'survival of the fittest).
What is Social Darwinism?
This influential banker and businessman bought and reorganized companies. His US Steel company would buy Carnegie steel and become the largest business in the world in 1901
Who is J.P. Morgan?
A strategy that allows a company to streamline its operations by taking direct ownership of various stages of its production process rather than relying on external contractors or suppliers.
What is Vertical Integration?
To refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands
What is a strike?
This left-wing agrarian party was founded in 1891
What is the Populist Party?
News that blurs fact from fiction. Manly used in the 1800's by newspaper companies, sensationalized the news by exaggerating the news.
What is Yellow Journalism?
A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This currency system includes both silver and gold as legal tender
What is bimetallism?
An agricultural system that emerged after the civil War in which black and white farmers rented land and residences from a plantation owner in exchange for giving him a certain "share" of each year's crop.
What is sharecropping?
The first federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
These territories were acquired during this period of expansionism (name 3).
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, American Samoa
Democratic candidate for president in 1896 under the banner of "free silver coinage" which won him support of the Populist Party.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This method of manufacturing, introduced in the early 1800s, made mass production possible.
What is interchangeable parts?
This private security force that specialized in antiunion activities; businesses' tool to break apart strikes
Who are the Pinkerton's?