Politics
A corrupt businessman who was the leader of Tammany Hall and influenced business and politics.
Who was Boss Tweed?
A business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way.
What is a Captains of Industry?
An American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
Who is Thomas Edison?
A novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century.
What is The Jungle?
Was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
What is the Haymarket Strike?
A market structure with a single seller or producer that assumes a dominant position in an industry.
What is a monopoly?
A Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
America's first transcontinental railroad, a continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
AN American law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
The period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era.
What is the Gilded Age?
A party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives.
What are Political Machines?
An American businessman. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time, one of the richest people in modern history, and the owner of Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
A Danish-American social reformer, "muck-raking" journalist, and social documentary photographer.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Someone who supports protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is a Nativist?
A business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
An economic philosophy that advocates for minimal government interference in the economy.
What is Laissez-faire economics?
The population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
What is Urbanization?
An American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author.
Who is Jane Addams?
Once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States.
What is Ellis Island?
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical.
What is a Robber Baron?
Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
These provide hands-on training in social work, social science research, education, public policy, nursing, and medicine.
What is a Settlement House?
An industrial lockout and strike that began on July 1, 1892, culminating in a battle in which strikers defeated private security agents on July 6, 1892.
What is the Homestead Strike?