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Robber Barons
Muckrakers
Acts
Amendments
Miscellaneous
100
set up steel monopoly in Pittsburgh, PA
Andrew Carnegie
100
The Jungle/ Meat packing/ working conditions
Upton Sinclair
100
160 Acres for $18
Homestead Act
100
supported by Temperance league
18th Amendment
100
Supported limiting the power of railroad monopolies for farmers
Populists/ Grangers
200
owned largest monopoly, Standard Oil Company, which was split up into today's modern gas/ oil companies
John D. Rockefeller
200
How the Other Half Lives/ tenements/ living conditions
Jacob Riis
200
created reservation system
Dawes Act
200
April 15th becomes tax day
16th Amendment
200
which organization supported ending child labor, 8 hour work days, safer conditions
labor unions
300
Owned banking monopoly and later bought Carnegie Steel (turned it into US Steel) and Edison Electric (became General Electric)
JP Morgan
300
convinced the government to limit monopolies especially Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell
300
created Trail of Tears, Natives were forces out of Tennessee, Kentucky and moved West
Indian Removal Act
300
Gives you more power over your government and elected officials
17th Amendment
300
giving away money to the foundation of schools, libraries, etc.
philanthropy
400
Owned Railroad Industry
Cornelius Vanderbilt
400
formed the NAACP, attacked the KKK
Ida B Wells
400
put in place in 1906 for sanitary and safe food coming out of factories
Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act - FDA

400
Repeals Prohibition
21st Amendment
400
people opposed to immigration
nativists
500
Companies like Shell, Sonoco, Esso, Valero, Chevron, Exxon came out of what company
Standard Oil Company
500
founded Hull House in Chicago
Jane Addams
500
aimed to limit the power of railroad monopolies
Hepburn Act

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

500
Created in the year 1919 as a response to WWI
19th Amendment women work in factories
500
President Taft's foreign policy
Dollar Diplomacy

Open Door Policy