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He took pictures of the slums of New York city to reveal the issues of poverty just around the corner.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Caused voting percentages to be the highest they have ever been, though not that many people were voting.
What is voter fraud/corruption?
These groups were the means of workers being able to stand up against their employers to demand things like the end of child workers, better pay, and safer working conditions.
What are Unions?
These expanded some 200% during the Gilded age, opening up trade across the nation instead of only selling to local markets.
What are the Rail Roads.
This Herbert Spencer's adaptation of Darwin's survival of the fittest was applied to society, those who had it would make it, and those who didn't were destined for poverty.
What is Social Darwinism?
He wrote "The Origin of Species" talking about the "survival of the fittest" and evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This essay laid out how those who make large amounts of money were supposed to contribute to society by investing in public institutions?
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This was the Government's initial treatment of the free market, where they did nothing.
What is Laissez-Faire?
In addition to increased immigration, this helped the population size of the U.S. go from around 30 Million to almost 94 Million People.
What is the Birth Rate?
Who is Little Foot?
He wrote the Gospel of Wealth, while making a killing in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Unions wanted this to be restricted in time.
What is the work day?
High these, made it more expensive to buy foreign made options.
What are Tariffs?
This scientific discovery helped produce steel at a much higher rate.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This kind of monopoly involved owning from the raw materials, to the finished project, and everything in between.
What is Vertical integration (or Monopoly)?
He took the ideas from Darwin's The Origin of Species like "survival of the fittest" and applied it to society.
This was the term used to describe the U.S. as different cultures as they came and combined into one.
What is Melting Pot?
This piece of Congressional Legislation in 1890 was supposed to stop the new form of Monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Steel made it possible to build these buildings cheaper, and increase the population of cities without expanding outward.
What is the Sky Scraper?
This type of Monopoly owned every part of a section of making a product (distilling, refining, etc.)
What is horizontal integration (or Monopoly)?
He championed cleaning the Streets and establishing sewer systems within the major cities in the U.S..
Who is Colonel George Waring?
This photo essay was too gross to be published in the big newspapers, and highlighted the discrepancy of wealth and poverty in the big cities.
What is "How the Other half Lives" by Jacob Riis
This was the group that regulated railroad rates, and could be called on in case of abuse in response to Farmer's complaints about losing money because of lack of regulation.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commision? (ICC)
Where is Southern and Eastern Europe?
McMurry calls this the "silver lining of war."
What is medical/Technological Advancement?