Economics
Robber Barons
Immigration
Muckrakers
Progressives
100
The economy shifted from agrarian to manufacturing from 1965 to 1900
Industrialization
100
Had a monopoly on the steel industry
Carnegie
100
Where were new immigrants processed on the East Coast?
Ellis Island
100
What book did Upton Sinclair write?
The Jungle
100
What law was passed to fix this problem
Pure Food and Drug Act
200
US economic system
Capitalism
200
What method for making steel did Carnegie bring to the US?
Bessemer Process
200
They wanted to limit the “NEW” immigrants coming to the United States
Nativists
200
What event is the political cartoon about?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
200
What government agency was created to fix the problem in this document
FDA
300
What happens to the price of a product when there is a large supply and low demand?
Prices decrease
300
Hands off”, when the government stays out of the economy
Laissez-Faire
300
Racist laws that put limits on new immigrants entering the country
Immigration Quota Acts of the 1920s
300
What did the United States use in the late 1800s and 1900s to “Americanize” Indigenous children?
Residential Schools
400
What are the characteristics of a free enterprise system (Capitalism)
Competition
Supply and Demand
Private ownership of businesses
400
How did big business treat workers?
Low Pay
Dangerous Working Conditions
Child Labor
400
Restricted Chinese Immigration to the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
400
What law was a direct result of Sinclair’s book?
Meat Inspection Act
500
When one business controls an entire industry
Monopoly
500
What did the Sherman Antitrust Act make illegal?
Monopolies and Trusts
500
Where immigrants on the West Coast processed
Angel Island
500
What problem is demonstrated in this document
Cocaine