Political
An economic idea that wants minimal government intervention in business.
What was the laissez-fair policy?
This concept describes acquiring or merging with businesses at the same level within an industry.
What is Horizontal Integration?
Another name for the Titans of industry.
What were Robber Barons?
This 1869 event connected the US from coast to coast by rail.
What is the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Andrew Carnegie's business/industry.
What is Steel? / What is Carnegie Steel Company?
This law restricted Chinese immigration into the US.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This law aimed to regulate railroad rates but had limited effectiveness.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This 1890 event signaled the end of westward expansion.
What is the Closing of the American Frontier?
He bought Andrew Carnegie's company.
Who was JP morgan?
The act aimed to assimilate the Natives and to put them on plots of land (reservations).
What was the Dawes Act?
This ideology justified the wealth inequality as being "survival of the fittest".
What is Social Darwinism?
These community centers helped immigrants adjust to city life.
What are settlement houses? (Such as Hull House)
This event in 1886, Chicago, involved a bomb and labor protest.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This president was nicknamed the "trust buster."
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
A political party formed to support farmers and called for free silver.
What was the Populist Party?
It raised protective tariffs on imported goods to around 50%.
What was the McKinley Tariff?
This movement encouraged helping the poor through charity and reform.
What is the Social Gospel?
This 1892 steel strike turned violent in Pennsylvania.
What is the Homestead Strike?
The titans of industry and their businesses, apart from Andrew Carnegie.
Who were Jp Morgan with banking, John Rockefeller with Oil, and Cornelius Vanderbilt with railroads?
This amendment made Cuba a US protectorate by limiting its foreign policy and granting US intervention rights.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This law intended to break up monopolies, but often worked against unions rather than big businesses.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This book exposed the harsh realities of urban poverty in New York City.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
The 1894 strike led by Eugene V. Debs that disrupted rail traffic nationwide.
What is the Pullman Strike?
At least two of the forgotten presidents.
Who were Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, and Grover Cleveland?