Go West Young Man
Thomas Nast can Kiss My
Muckrakers
Men who Built America
Politics/Reform
100
Built largely by Chinese and Irish immigrants, it connected California to the East Coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
He was the Political Boss that became an enemy of Thomas Nast.
Who is Boss Tweed?
100
A book by Upton Sinclair so nasty it could make anyone a vegetarian.
What is "The Jungle?"
100
These are the four industries fueled the Industrial Revolution.
What was R.O.S.E.? Railroads, Oil, Steel, and Electricity
100
Keep your stinking Government hands off my Business!
What is Laissez-faire Capitalism?
200
Free land! If you'll work to improve it. That was the deal based on this Act.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
Their political symbol is the Elephant according to Nast.
What is the Republican Party?
200
The author and the book that exposed Urban Poverty and life in the slums.
Who was Jacob Riis and "How the Other Half Lives.?"
200
The Master of Steel. He was the original Pittsburgh Steeler.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
She led one of the earliest progressive reforms, the settlement house movement. Namely Hull House.
How was Jane Addams?
300
What Black Americans who migrated from the south to the west in 1879 where known as, even though they didn't have a Moses.
Who are the Exodusters?
300
The Democratic Party in Nast cartoons were depicted as this animal.
What is the donkey?
300
Her book, "A History of Standard Oil" exposed the ruthlessness of Rockefeller. He would have had her killed, if he could have gotten away with the crime.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
300
Rockefeller's Monopoly.
What was Standard Oil?
400
Animals who's mass extinction crushed the lives of the Native Americans.
What are the Buffalo?
400
Corruption in large urban areas, especially New York, gave rise to them.
What are the Political Machines?
400
The middle class idea from the late 1800's that to honor God you had to help other, especially the poor.
What is the Social Gospel?
400
The first was a master of vertical integration, the second was horizontal integration.
What were Carnegie's method and Rockefeller's method of monopoly?
500
A Nativist Congress passed this act to end Chinese immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
500
The attitude that immigrants were less than those of "True" Americans.
What is Nativism?
500
The John Spargo expose' on the horrors of Child Labor.
What is the "Bitter Cry of the Children?"
500
If you liked them they were "Captain's of Industry." If not you called them this term.
What is a Robber Baron?
500
Government regulation of Rail Roads to lower rates. A National Income Tax. Direct Election of Senators and Bi-Metalism were all points in their political platform.
Who was the Populist Party?