Big Business
This is the type of business that controls 90% of the market for the product they sell
What is a monopoly?
This is the term for the large political groups that ran cities during the Gilded Age. Their leaders were called bosses.
What are political machines?
The political belief of focusing on the interests of white Americans born in the US over immigrants
Also known as Custer's Last Stand, this battle resulted in outrage of American settlers at the defeat of the army.
What is Little Big Horn?
This term describes investigative journalists who tried to improve society through outrage in public opinion.
Who are the muckrakers?
If you view them positively, you might call them "Captains of Industry," but if you view these big business leaders in a negative light you would call them...
What are Robber Barons?
This term describes the crowded and low quality housing many urban factory workers lived in.
What are tenements?
This 1882 law prevented Chinese people from immigrating to the US
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This massacre of Indigenous people is sometimes viewed by historians as revenge for Custer's Last Stand.
What is Wounded Knee?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in all states.
What is the 19th amendment?
If a monopoly is integrated in this way, they own the majority of the supply of a good.
What is horizontal integration?
This term describes when money meant for public projects instead benefit private citizens.
What is graft/grafting?
Large immigration processing location for immigrants entering America from the West Coast
What is Angel Island?
This 1887 law forced European style farming onto Indigenous people by breaking up land into individual plots. Over 90 million acres ended up being sold to white settlers.
What is the Dawes Act?
This is the broad term for the group of laws the created a segregated society and denied African Americans opportunities
What are Jim Crow laws?
If a monopoly is integrated in this way, they control all elements of the production and shipping process.
What is vertical integration?
If you are someone's patron, that means that in exchange for their support, after an election you will give your supporters/friends...
Large immigration processing center for immigrants entering from the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
This 1862 law allowed any American to apply for up to 160 acres of free land, as long as they "improved" it in 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision resulted in the ________________ doctrine.
This law passed in 1890 helped give the government power to regulate monopolies and break them up
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This event shocked New York City and exposed unsafe working conditions in factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Reasons someone might immigrate to America can be classified as _________ and _________ factors.
What are push and pull?
This residential school was part of the system of forced assimilation.
What is the Carlisle Indian Boarding School?
This type of special election allows the voters to remove a politician from office.
What is a recall election?