Big Business
A ___________ is a phrase for someone who increases the supply of goods and creates jobs. It's a flattering term.
Captain of Industry
The first anti-monopoly law
Sherman Anti-Trust Law
Where did most of the "new" immigrants come from
Southern and Eastern Europe
What law was passed to regulate railroad shipping costs?
Interstate Commerce Act/Interstate Commerce Commission
Journalists who exposed corruption, urban issues, monopolies, and other ills of society
Muckrakers
The time period is characterized as extreme wealth by a few masking the poverty and and terrible loving conditions of most people which is why it is referred to as the ...... (The name of the time period given by Mark Twain)
Gilded Age
What are the goals of labor unions?
More money, less hours, safer working conditions
A migration of African Americans from the south to northern cities looking for work and to escape racism
The Great Migration
What was the main part of the Omaha Platform that would allow for farmers to more easily pay back their debts?
Bi-Metallism
The 17th Amendment increased democracy and gave people more power by changing how senators are elected to what?
direct election (from state gov't appointment)
The government having it's "hands-off" businesses and creating little to no restrictions on business practices and was supported by industrialists
Laissez-faire
A peaceful protest that became chaotic after a bomb exploded and caused many to associate unions with violence and un-American ideas like anarchy and communism
Haymarket Riot
A law passed that highlights the concept of nativism or xenophobia
Chinese Exclusion Act
Who was the populist that was nominated by the Democratic party and gave the Cross of Gold Speech?
William Jennings Bryan
Which president controlled monopolies by breaking up bad trusts while letting good trust continue?
Teddy Roosevelt
The idea that successful businessmen should be exceptionally wealthy because they were philanthropists
"Gospel of Wealth"
The first major labor dispute which proved the government would intervene with the military on behalf of business owners
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
A shoddy, rundown, unclean, overcrowded, apartment building where many immigrants would live
Tenement
What caused the Populists/Democrats to lose the 1896 election
inability form an alliance with workers/white farmers not wanted to work with black farmers
Passed by Woodrow Wilson, the law that re-organized and stabilized the banking industry
Federal Reserve Act
Justification for wealth that depicted the wealthy as more fit to survive than others
Social Darwinism
A strategy used by employers which forced workers to not have a union at their factory
Yellow-Dog Contract
Corrupt organizations that would rig elections, grift/graft money from the tax payers, and provide services to immigrants/urban poor.
Political Machines
The co-op that was formed by farmers to share resources and avoid corrupt railraods
The Grange
The Hull House founded by Jane Addams and other settlement houses were mostly created for the benefit of whom?
Immigrants and the urban poor