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allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration
What is Chinese Exclusion act
100
a term used to describe large corporations, in either an individual or collective sense.
What is Big Business
100

Worked tirelessly to end lynching and improve women's rights in the early 1900's

Who is Ida B. Wells

100

This Supreme Court case established the doctrine of separate but equal in American society.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

100
a relationship whereby property (including real, tangible and intangible) is managed by one person (or persons, or organizations) for the benefit of another.
What is a Trust
200

This was the U.S. governments first attempt at controlling the trusts that developed in the late 1800's

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

200

Organization dedicated to attempting to improve the health of young men during the Industrial Revolution

What is the YMCA

200
Started the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
200

Was established as the African American alternative to Major League baseball until the late 1940's. 

What is the Negro Leagues

200
exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.
What is a monopoly?
300

This government legislation was meant to regulate trade across state lines and controlled the rates that railroads could charge.

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

300

Gustavus Swift and Andrew Carnegie used this business model to amass their huge fortunes in the meatpacking and steel industries

What is Vertical Integration.

300
Invented the Phonograph and the Electric Lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages,
What is the Pullman Strike
300

This disaster of 1911 led to significant changes in building codes in NYC and across  the nation.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

400

The establishment of this agency was meant to preserve wildlands for the enjoyment of future generations while keeping out of the hands of industry.

What is the National Park Service.

400
John D. Rockefeller founded this company
What is the Standard Oil Company
400

Led the Sioux during years of resistance against the United States

Who is Sitting Bull

400
a writer who investigates and publishes truthful reports involving a host of social issues, broadly including crime and corruption and often involving elected officials, political leaders and influential members of business and industry.
What is a muckracker
400

This author and his book led to the drafting of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

What is Upton Sinclair and The Jungle

500

Not a government policy, but the view that the wealthy should act as the caretakers of the less fortunate and should give back in the form of cultural and educational opportunity.

What is the Gospel of Wealth

500
The organization founded by Samuel Gompers
What is the American Federation of Labor
500

Called on southern whites to provide African Americans with vocational education to improve their conditions in the American South.

Who is Booker T. Washington

500
an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination".
What is the NAACP
500
Seventeenth Amendment
What is the Direct Election of Senators.