Reconstruction
This organization was established after the Civil War to provide food, medicine, jobs, and education to African Americas, as well as some displaced Whites.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau
Not the board game, it means a company that has complete market control.
What is a Monopoly
The United States underwent a process of _____ in the late 1800s when people left the country and started moving to cities, primarily to find factory jobs.
What is Urbanization
A term that means to break-up a monopoly. Someone call Teddy Roosevelt, there’s a ghost... I mean monopoly in my closet!
What is Trust-busting
Love the Model-T? My company is still making cars to this day.
Who is Henry Ford
With this job, you won’t own the land, but if you work and harvest it, I’ll give you a share of the profits.
What is Sharecropping
Hands-off! This economic policy favors limited government regulation.
What is Laissez-faire economics
A reason a person is drawn to a new homeland–rather than a reason that makes them want to leave their old one–is known as a _____ factor.
What is a Pull-factor
This 3 letter organization was established in 1906 to ensure that food and medicine were safe for consumers. No more sawdust in my meat.
What is the FDA
This term, coined by Mark Twain, described the shiny exterior that covered the grim reality that many people experienced during this era that spanned the last quarter of the 19th century. Now also an HBO show!
What is the Gilded Age
This Constitutional Amendment guaranteed citizenship to anyone born in the United States, Black or White (let’s not talk about Native Americans though).
What is the 14th Amendment
_____ Politicians favored government intervention into industrial and business practices in order to protect consumers.
Who are Progressive
Term to describe the millions of African Americans who left the rural South for Northern and Western cities.
What is the Great Migration
This kind of progressive legislation dealt with who was allowed to work, or rather how old they were.
What are Child Labor Laws
Although other inventors paved the way, this man often gets credit for inventing the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison
After Reconstruction ended, the Supreme Court okayed “separate but equal” in this 1898 case. Make way for Jim Crow laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
An arrangement or strategy in which a corporation gains control of raw materials, the capacity to manufacture products, and the means to distribute them.
What is Vertical Integration
Railways, skyscrapers, farm tractors–none of these would have possible without this, which made steel production much cheaper and efficient.
What is the Bessemer process
What a beautiful National Park! I guess I should thank this type of Progressive for preserving millions of acres of nature.
Who are Conservationists
Author of the Gospel of Wealth, he believed it was the duty of the rich to give back to society.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
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This gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency, but effectively ended federal Reconstruction after Republicans agreed to pull troops out of the South.
This method of purchasing became popular in the 1920s, but also led to a major market crash.
What is Credit
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Starting in the late 19th century, millions of immigrants and job seekers rented these city dwellings. They were cheap, but also tiny, overcrowded, and often filthy.
Thanks to this Amendment women finally have the right to suffer, no wait, I mean they have the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment
Name of the company of John D. Rockefeller, which at one point controlled 90% of its industry.
What is Standard Oil