Progressive Action
This Progressive reform allowed citizens to vote directly for U.S. senators rather than having them chosen by state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This term describes the late 1800s period of rapid economic growth and extreme inequality in the United States.
What is the Gilded Age?
This movement aimed to reduce corruption, regulate big business, and improve living and working conditions.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized communication.
What is the telephone?
This economic system is based on private ownership and competition.
What is capitalism?
This labor leader headed the American Federation of Labor and focused on skilled workers and collective bargaining.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
This oil tycoon built Standard Oil into a powerful monopoly through horizontal integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Progressives believed government should regulate this type of business structure that dominated industries.
What is a monopoly?
This steel-making method, developed by Henry Bessemer, made steel cheaper and faster to produce.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This term describes workers negotiating as a group for better wages and conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
This Socialist leader ran for president multiple times and led the Pullman Strike of 1894.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This steel magnate used vertical integration and later sold his company to J.P. Morgan.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
These reforms gave voters more power through initiatives, referendums, and recalls.
What is direct democracy?
This inventor worked at Menlo Park and developed the practical light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
These factors encouraged immigrants to leave their home countries, such as famine or poverty.
What are push factors?
This Progressive action targeted trusts and monopolies in order to increase competition in the economy.
What is trust-busting?
This idea claimed that wealth was earned by the “fittest” individuals and justified inequality during the Gilded Age.
What is Social Darwinism?
Progressive reforms were most popular among this social group, especially in urban areas.
Who are the middle class?
This type of building became possible due to steel construction and urban growth.
What is a skyscraper?
This political ideology, associated with Karl Marx, calls for a classless society.
What is communism?
By 1920, the Progressive Movement had limited success because it improved working conditions but failed to fully eliminate this economic issue.
What is concentration of wealth?
This belief system supported minimal government interference in business during the Gilded Age.
What is laissez-faire?
One major failure of the Progressive Movement was its limited success in helping this group.
Who are African Americans?
One key reason the late nineteenth century saw rapid industrialization was the abundance of these resources.
What are natural resources?
Immigrants arriving from Southern and Eastern Europe after 1890 were known by this term.
Who are the New Immigrants?