The anti-immigrant movement in America is referred to as this
What is Nativism?
100
Before 1900, laissez-faire prevented the government from doing this
What is regulating industry (breaking up trusts)?
100
This allowed the government to break up monopolies and trusts
What is the Sherman/Clayton Anti-trust act?
100
Lincoln Steffens wrote about the corruption in government and urban areas in this book
What is "The Shame of Cities"?
100
This was the name of John D. Rockefeller's Company
What is Standard Oil?
200
She established the Hull House to help immigrants and the poor
Who is Jane Addams?
200
Many rich industrialists felt that they were entitled to their money and the poor were meant to be poor because of this idea
What is Social Darwinism?
200
The Interstate Commerce Act was passed to allow the government to do this, something it had not done before
What is regulate the RR industry?
200
She wrote about created a federal anti-lynching law
Who is Ida Wells?
200
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire exposed this
What is the bad working conditions and child/women labor problems?
300
The Gentleman's Agreement did this
What is limiting immigration from Japan to the United States?
300
This is used to describe a business buying or merging with most of its competition in the SAME field (ex: Rockefeller)
What is horizontal integration?
300
The farmers blamed this industry for the majority of their problems
What is the RR companies?
300
During this strike in 1902, Roosevelt stepped in to compromise between the strikers and the business owners
What is the 1902 Anthracite Coal Strike?
400
Other than banning Chinese immigrants from coming to the US, this was the other part of the Chinese Exclusion Act
What is not allowing Chinese immigrants to become citizens?
400
During the Pullman Railcar Strike, the strike ended because of this.
What is the Fed. government sent in the military to end the strike (sided with business over labor)?
400
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" caused Roosevelt to work for the passage of this
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
400
Other than alcohol being a moral, religious, monetary problem, as well as physical abuse, this was the OTHER major reason that many Americans supported the idea of Prohibition
What are anti-immigrant beliefs?
400
He was the leader of the AF of L
Who is Samuel Gompers?
500
This eventually was passed to prevent almost all immigrants from coming to America
What is the Quota System?
500
Carnegie used this process to help create steel quickly and cheaply
What is the Bessemer Process?
500
This court case allowed women to have no more than an 8 hour workday, mostly because they were not "strong" enough to work long hours
What is Muller v. Oregon?
500
This was the major problem with the Keating-Owen Act
What is it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
500
The law allowed some applicants to take a test (civil service exam) to get government positions.