Industrialization
This transportation network created a truly national market for goods.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This term describes the gap between the ultra-wealthy "Captains of Industry" and the urban poor.
What is Wealth Inequality?
These investigative journalists exposed social ills and corporate corruption to the public.
What are Muckrakers?
Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic program focused on conservation, consumer protection, and control of corporations.
What is the Square Deal?
This 1890 Act was the first federal attempt to limit monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This legal entity allowed companies to raise vast amounts of capital while limiting liability for investors.
What is a Corporation?
These organizations emerged to fight for better wages and safer conditions in response to industrial exploitation.
What are Labor Unions?
Progressives aimed to grant women this right, eventually achieved via the 19th Amendment.
What is Suffrage?
This 1906 law was passed after the publication of The Jungle to ensure food safety.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This Trust Buster became President after the assassination of William McKinley.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
High levels of this provided a cheap, unskilled labor force for growing urban factories.
What is New Immigration from Southern/Eastern Europe?
This process led to the rapid growth of cities, often resulting in overcrowded tenements and poor sanitation.
What is Urbanization?
This political movement, largely made up of farmers, was the precursor to the Progressive Movement.
What is the Populist Party or People’s Party?
This 1913 Act created a central banking system to manage the nation's money supply.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This 17th Amendment reform allowed for the direct election of these officials.
Who are US Senators?
This economic philosophy, favored by the federal government, meant "leave alone" or minimal regulation.
What is Laissez-faire?
Mark Twain coined this term to describe an era that looked golden on the outside but was corrupt underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
Unlike Populism, the Progressive Movement was primarily led by members of this social class.
What is the Middle Class?
This Amendment established a federal income tax to reduce reliance on tariffs.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This ideology applied "survival of the fittest" to human society to justify the success of the wealthy.
What is Social Darwinism?
These protective measures were passed by Congress to shield domestic industries from foreign competition.
What are High Tariffs?
This process allowed for the mass production of high-quality steel, fueling the growth of skyscrapers.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This Progressive reform allowed citizens to vote directly on proposed laws.
What is a Referendum?
This President’s "New Freedom" platform led to the creation of the Federal Trade Commission.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This 1914 Act strengthened the Sherman Act by specifically banning price discrimination.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?