Key People
Key Events
Industrialization & Urbanization
Progressive Reforms
Labor & Immigration
Reforms
Random Sauce
100
This steel magnate (a wealthy, influential person in business), wrote the gospel of wealth in 1889 which he argued wealthy individuals have a moral responsibility to use their wealth for the greater good of society by actively engaging in philanthropy and investing in institutions like libraries and universities, rather than simply accumulating personal riches
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
This Progressive Amendment granted women the right to vote (suffrage).
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
This term was used to describe wealthy industrialists who were seen as unethical and exploitative of their workers.
What are Robber Barons?
100
This law was passed to prevent the sale of contaminated food and medicines.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
100
These organizations helped immigrants and the urban poor gain valuable education and skills to get by. These organizations formed the beginnings of the social work profession.
What are settlement houses?
100
Make a comparison between the concerns over Robber Barons during the Gilded Age to society today.
Answers will vary, but could include comparisons to debates about:
1. Wealth Inequality, fairness, and economic opportunity.
2. Corporate influence of big corporations and tech giants over government policies and the economy.
3. Worker's rights, wages, and treatment in certain industries.
100
This term refers to a company's complete control over an industry.
What is a monopoly?
200
This person was the founder of Standard Oil which owned or controlled 90 percent of the U.S. oil refining business, an example of a monopoly.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
This event marked the completion of a nationwide transportation network in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad Completion?
200
This movement aimed to address industrialization’s social issues by reforming the government, including protections for workers and consumers.
What is Progressivism? or What is the Progressive Era?
200
National parks were established under this Progressive president.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
So called "old immigrants" arriving to the US prior to the 1880s or so came primarily from these regions of Europe, while "new immigrants" arriving post-1880s arrived from these regions of Europe.
What are Northern and Western Europe ("Old immigrants")?
What are Southern and Eastern Europe ("New immigrants")?
200
This organization was founded in 1909 in the midst of the Progressive era to achieve racial equality.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
200
These journalists exposed corruption and societal issues. Ex: Upton Sinclair (meatpacking industry), Ida B. Wells (lynching of African-Americans), etc.
Who are muckrakers?
300
This person was the founder of Hull House in Chicago that helped give immigrants and the urban poor skills and education - a leader in social reform during the Progressive Era.
Who is Jane Addams?
300
This Progressive Amendment allowed for the direct election of senators. Before this amendment state legislatures would select the senators for the state.
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
This image shows this type of poorly built, overcrowded urban housing that was common in large cities during the Gilded Age as the demand for housing was high with the influx of immigrants and other workers looking for industrial jobs.
What are tenements?
300
The temperance movement influenced the passage of this amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1919, which prohibited alcohol (known as Prohibition). Organizations like the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) became a leading force in the temperance movement, emphasizing the connection between alcohol and domestic violence.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
At this event from 1892, workers at one of Andrew Carnegie’s Pennsylvania steel plants protested wage cuts. Carnegie left management to Henry Frick, who hired armed security, sparking a deadly clash. Though workers briefly triumphed, the state militia crushed the strike, exposing Carnegie’s mixed stance on unions and highlighting Gilded Age labor struggles.
What is the Homestead Strike?
300
This Black intellectual took a more conservative approach to Civil Rights and believed the path to racial equality was through education & economic success.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This was the name used for political organizations that controlled cities through corruption and patronage (giving government jobs and favors to friends). One of the most infamous ones was Tammany Hall led by Boss Tweed who controlled New York City's politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What are political machines?
400
This person was the author of The Jungle, which led to reforms in the meatpacking industry after exposing the harsh realities of the meatpacking industry in Chicago during the early 20th century, and example of muckraking journalism.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
400
In 1886, this peaceful labor protest, supporting the eight-hour workday movement in Chicago, turned violent when a bomb killed several police officers. Eight anarchist leaders were arrested, with some executed despite uncertainty about the bomber's identity. The event severely damaged the labor movement's reputation and marked a critical turning point in American labor history.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
400
This was the name of the publication that exposed the horrid conditions in meatpacking facilities in the late 1800s.
What is the Jungle?
400
This amendment created a federal income tax to raise revenue for the federal government's progressive policies.
What is the 16th Amendment?
400
This infamous labor event in 1914 included a violent attack by the Colorado National Guard and private guards on striking coal miners and their families, resulting in numerous deaths and symbolizing the brutal suppression of labor rights during the early 20th century.
What is the Ludlow massacre?
400
This muckraker photographed the tenements of New York City, showing the world the reality of poor urban living.
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
This was the name of laws in the South that were aimed at separating the races.
What are Jim Crow laws?
500
This president was known for trust-busting (breaking up big businesses/monopolies) and conservation efforts.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
500
During this 1894 event, railroad workers protested wage cuts and exploitative company practices by staging a massive labor dispute. Led by Eugene V. Debs, the workers' actions quickly grew into a nationwide transportation shutdown. The federal government responded by sending troops to suppress the strike, resulting in Debs' arrest and imprisonment. Though the workers were defeated, the conflict drew national attention to labor conditions and became a pivotal moment in the struggle for workers' rights.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
This economic policy favors minimal government interference in the economy and means "let it happen" in French. It was the dominant economic philosophy before the Progressive Movement.
What is laissez-faire? (lah-zay-fare)
500
This act aimed to curb monopolies and promote competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
This political party advocated for farmers. This included advocating for monetary (banking) reform and government regulation of railroads.
What is the Populist party? What is Populism?
500
This was the immigration processing facility in San Francisco where thousands of Chinese came through in the late 1800s.
What is Angel's Island?
500
The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established this doctrine, which permitted segregation in the U.S.
What is "separate but equal" facilities?