Supreme Court Cases and Amendments
Which Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1919?
The 19th Amendment
This Act limited Chinese immigration to the US
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed after this muckraker exposed the conditions of the meat packing industry
Upton Sinclair
Name a Robber Barron
Rockefeller, Carnegie
Name a Captain of Industry
Rockefeller, Carnegie
This Amendment is also known as the Prohibition Amendment
18th
This act was used to break up monopolies like Standard Oil and Microsoft but was also very vague because it didn't define "restraint of trade".
The Sherman Antitrust Act
What was the name of the labor union open to all people to help fight for the rights of workers during the Progressive Era?
The Knights of Labor or the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
The reliance on industry (industrialization) in big cities led to this
immigration/ overpopulation
Name of the school that forced Native American children to assimilate
Carlisle Indian School
The 17th Amendment makes a direct election of who
Senators
This Act was created to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal land and forcing them to give up their traditions and culture
The Dawes Act
Jacob Riis took pictures of what exposing the unsatisfactory living conditions in NYC? (Name the type of "apartment")
Tenements/ Tenement housing
What was the name of the system that allowed big businesses to rent or lease prisoners to work for them
The Convict Lease System/ Convict Leasing
an ideology, governmental policy, or political stance that prioritizes the interests and well-being of native-born or long-established residents of a given country over those of immigrants
nativism
The name of the Court Case that upheld racial segregation under "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
This Act was the model for future government regulations of public businesses
The Interstate Commerce Act
The 16th Amendment gave the government the right to tax what?
Income
What is the word for what Native American were forced on to after being removed from their land for whites to settle during westward expansion?
Reservations
The idea used to explain why the economic divide between the rich and poor during the Gilded Age was so drastic. (survival of the fittest)
Social Darwinism
What was the name of the Court Case that ended "seperate but equal" because separate is not equal?
Brown v. Board of Ed
This Act expanded the limits on immigration to all eastern Asian persons by placing quotas on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the US
The Immigration Act of 1924
The name of the Political Party that sought economic reforms such as free coinage of silver to aid farmers, women's suffrage, and workers rights
The Populist Party
What Act gave farmers incentive to move westward including 160 acres of land for them to improve in 5 years?
The Homestead Act
What is the word to describe the government's "hands-off" policy when it came to the economy and bug business?
Laissez-Faire