Business
What term best describes a company that completely dominates a particular industry?
monopoly
What is a pull factor?
Something that attracts someone to a new place.
Who had a monopoly on the oil industry?
John D. Rockefeller
What does the NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What is a push factor?
Something that makes people want to leave their home.
What method did Henry Ford use to mass-produce automobiles?
assembly line
What was a pull factor that drew Europeans to the Unites States following the Civil War?
availability of farmland
In the early 1900's, journalists who wrote about America's social, political, and environmental problems were called _____.
muckrakers
Why did many progressives argue that a separate court system was necessary for juveniles?
They argued juvenile offenders were good people with bad surroundings.
Corrupt public officials
A business organized as a corporation is owned by its ______.
stockholders
Which group passed laws to decrease the number of immigrants coming to America?
nativists
The idea that people are subject to natural selection like animals and plants is called
Social Darwinism
What did Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson do to protect the environment?
set aside land for national parks
Why did the US government set up schools for Indigenous children?
The government wanted to assimilate Indigenous people into US culture.
What is the main idea of the laissez-faire economic policy?
The government should leave businesses alone.
In the 1800's, the rising tide of migration to the West brought colonists in conflict with ____.
Indigenous people.
In an economic system of capitalism, who owns factories and equipment?
Privately owned
What is significant about the Railroad Strike of 1877?
It was the first time the US Army was used to break a strike.
Why did many children in the 1900's not attend school?
Children often worked for wages to support their families.
Why was the Sherman Antitrust unsuccessful at breaking up monopolies?
It's vague language allowed big businesses to beat it in court.
How was the immigration station at Angel Island different from the one at Ellis Island?
At Angel Island, immigrants underwent a lengthier and more detailed interview.
In the post-Civil war era, the United States evolved from a ____ society into a ____ society.
socialist; capitalist
What progressive reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature?
initiative
What did Upton Sinclair expose to readers with his 1906 novel The Jungle?
The unsanitary conditions in the meat packing plants