Big Business
The process of shifting a society’s economy from farming to manufacturing.
Industrialization
Overcrowded, unsafe apartment buildings where immigrants lived.
Tenements
Investigative journalists who uncover and expose corruption and societal problems.
Muckrakers
An organized group of workers formed to protect and improve wages and working conditions.
Labor Union
Law granting women the right to vote in 1920.
19th Amendment
An economic system where most businesses are privately owned for profit.
Capitalism
Favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
Nativism
Who was Upton Sinclair? What book did he write and what did it expose?
Author of The Jungle, who exposed the meatpacking industry.
When workers refuse to work in order to demand better pay or conditions.
Strike
This woman worked tirelessly to support the Women's Suffrage movement and was once arrested for illegally voting in a presidential election.
Susan B. Anthony
When one company has total control of an entire industry.
Monopoly
Law that banned Chinese immigration in 1882.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Law passed in 1906 that banned unsafe or falsely labeled food and drugs.
Pure Food and Drug Act
A worker who replaces striking workers, often hired to break a strike.
Scab
This 1913 amendment allowed citizens to directly elect their U.S. Senators instead of state legislatures choosing them.
17th Amendment
When a company controls all parts of production—from raw materials to distribution—in order to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Vertical Integration
Immigration to the U.S. provided a steady source of labor for this growing sector.
manufacturing or factory work
Photographer who revealed the harsh living conditions of immigrants in How the Other Half Lives.
Jacob Riis
During the late 1800s, most major labor strikes showed that the federal government usually sided with which group?
Business Owners
This amendment, ratified in 1913, gave Congress the power to collect income taxes.
16th Amendment
Name four of the industrialist men (captains of industry or robber barons) from the Gilded Age.
Will accept last names only.
JD Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt
The main immigration processing station in the United States from 1892 to 1954, located in New York Harbor, was called what?
Ellis Island
Ida Tarbell exposed unfair business practices in this industry.
What is oil (Standard Oil Company)?
In 1914, striking coal miners and their families were killed in Colorado during this deadly labor conflict.
Ludlow Massacre
What was one reason anti-suffrage propaganda like “Election Day!” warned against women voting?
It claimed women voting would disrupt family roles or cause chaos at home.