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Industry & Railroad
Big Business and Unions
Immigration
Progressivism
Urban Problems
100
Laissez Faire economics in 3 points
-Government takes a "hands off approach to business" -Gov should only maintain peace -Supply & demand determine prices & wages
100
A popular theory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that stated that the weak were diminished and their cultures delimited, while the strong grew in power and influence over the weak.
Social Darwinism
100
After coming to the United States, most immigrants moved to __________ because________
urban areas (cities) because there were jobs there.
100
A muckraker's main tool to achieve change was
investigation & exposing societal issues
100
Two photographers who documented living and working conditions of the lower class.
Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine
200
A major result of the expansion of the transcontinental railroads
EITHER: -Growth of population in the West -Resources like copper, tin, grasslands, etc were available for use by Northeastern factories
200
Major goal of new types of business organizations in the second half of the 19th century
To efficiently consolidate the manufacture and distribution of goods
200
What did immigration laws look like during most of the 19th century?
Open! There was a great demand for labor. Immigration laws didn't really kick in until the Quotas in the 1920's
200
_______ wrote The Jungle, which was an expose about The _____________ Industry.
Upton Sinclair The Jungle
200
Powerful organizations, called _______ existed to get and keep power. They did this by helping _______.
Political Machines Immigrants
300
Policies of the government were most favorable to ________ because________.
(Need BOTH) -businesses/industry -laissez faire "hands off" approach
300
These men helped to establish the United States as an industrial power. (Their title and 2 examples)
Robber Barons/Captains of Industry Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan...
300
What are 2 major differences between a New immigrant and an Old immigrant?
Old immigrants- north &western Europe, Christian New immigrants- south & east Europe/Asia- not as welcomed because of different religions, languages, look different, different ideas about gov't
300
Booker T Washington was different from W.E.B. DuBois because he
Thought that to achieve black rights in the US, you needed to compromise & focus on industrial education
300
The leader of Tammany Hall in NYC
William "Boss Tweed"
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!! These helped both railroad companies and settlers looking to move west.
Land grants
400
Main goals of unions
What is to increase wages and get an 8 hour workday
400
Give 2 examples of nativist legislation
-Chinese Exclusion Act -Gentleman's Agreement -Quotas
400
Two major achievements of TR as a progressive president are:
-broke up monopolies -conservation (protecting the environment)
400
The ____ Amendment fixed issues with corruption in elections because it allowed for the _______________
17th direct election of US Senators
500
What is most profound impact of the industrial era on the United States
The rise of factories & big business
500
In the late 1800's Unions were (successful/unsuccessful) because_____
-unsuccessful -gov usually supported businesses instead of workers
500
Assimilation is...
the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group because they have mixed and adopted new ideas/practices
500
What legislation did TR use in order to break down monopolies like Standard Oil?
The Sherman Antitrust Act
500
The purpose of the political reforms of initiative, recall, and referendum was to provide opportunities for citizens to
gain greater control of their government