Industrialization
A negative term given to the leaders of industry like Carnegie or Rockefeller who were to be greedy and manipulative
Robber Barons
Name an example of a pull factor and a push factor
Pull: Jobs, promise of better life etc
Push: war, famine, disease, etc
Define the Progressive Era
A period of social activism and legal reform aimed at addressing the issues of the Industrial Revolution
"“In time it came to seem natural to all of us that the Settlement should be there. If it is natural to feed the hungry and care for the sick"
A. Upton Sinclair
B. Ida Tarbell
C. Jane Addams
D. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Jane Addams
What is the difference between a robber baron and a captain of industry?
Robber barons gain and use money selfishly or shadily, captains of industry use their money to benefit others
the exclusive control of one company over an entire industry
Monopoly
Most immigrants came to the United States from ______________.
Europe, smaller amounts came from Asia
What groups did most of the work of the progressive era (2)
Labor unions, muckrakers
“The world cares little about what a man knows: it cares more about what a man is able to do”
A. Ida B Wells- Barnett
B. WEB Dubois
C. Theodore Roosevelt
D. Booker T. Washington
Booker T Washington
Historians consider work of muckrakers to fall under which of these three eras:
Industrial Era
Gilded Era
Progressive Era
Progressive Era
The gilded age saw an increase in ___________
Manufacturing
Most immigrants in the Gilded age lived in ______________ and worked in _____________________.
tenements, factories
Name a muckraker of this time and how they worked to solve an issue of the progressive era
Jacob Riis (Slums)
Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
Ida Tarbell (Wrote about Rockefeller)
“But we do more than protest: we ask again for freedom in this wide land of the human spirit where freedom should always live: the right to speak thoughts that are heard, and to dream dreams with honest, free minds.”
A. Booker T. Washington
B. Susan B. Anthony
C. W.E.B. Dubois
D. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
W.E.B Dubois
Explain what happened at the Haymarket Riot
Various answers
Name two problems for workers were caused by Industrialization
Long hours,
Low pay
Child Labor
Dangerous Work
What did Asian immigrants do for the United States
Transcontinental railroad, culture and food
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act do?
Prohibit the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs
“We are starving for the ballot; give us the ballot in order that we may get bread, and an honest, upright living. We are born of the same parents as men; raised in the same family. We are possessed of the same loves and animosities as our brothers, and we inherit equally with them the substance of our fathers."
A. W.E.B Dubois
B. Susan B. Anthony
C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D. Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Why was the period of 1870 - 1910 called the Gilded Age?
Things looked great, nice and shiny on the outside, but underneath, things weren’t great
Besides laborers and money, Industrialization could not have occurred without _______________
Immigrants
Nativism is defined as American resentment because of increased immigrant migration to this country.
Name an example of Nativism in the Gilded Age
Chinese Exclusion Act
This U.S. president made significant contributions to breaking up big business during the Progressive Era
Theodore Roosevelt
"There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed."
A. Upton Sinclair
B. Ida Tarbell
C. Jacob Riis
D. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
What were 3 major problems of the Gilded Age?
Overcrowded cities
Bad sanitation
Monopolies/Robber barons
(dangerous working conditions, child labor)