Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Definitions
Women and AA Reformers
Indian Wars and Immigration
100

What is it called when a company has complete control over a product or service?

Monopoly 

100

Who was known as a Trust buster?

Teddy Roosevelt 

100

A group of investors who come together as a group and share ownership of a company? 

Corporation

100

What did the 19th amendment do?

Gave women the vote

100

Term for the idea that people could come from many places but would be ‘blended together’?

Melting Pot

200

T or F: Child labor was common in the 1800s

True

200

Which event led to building codes and government regulation of business?

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

200

Rights to exclusively develop, use and sell inventions for a period of time

Patent

200

Why were women preferred to work in sweatshops?

They could be paid less than men

200

T or F: Conflicts over land and resources as settlers moved westward caused the Indian Wars

True

300

Vertical or Horizontal integration: Merging competing firms into one big company. 

Horizontal 

300

Which act made monopolies illegal?

Sherman Antitrust 

300

Where people try negotiating as a group with the employer for higher wages and better working conditions?

Collective Bargaining 

300

Who founded the settlement house (Hull House)?

Jane Addams

300

What happened as a result of the Indian Wars?

Native land was taken and they were pushed onto reservations. 
400

What were the causes of the Pullman strike?

Reduced wages and high rent

400

Which court case upheld the principle of "separate but equal"?

Plessy v Ferguson 

400

The economic and political philosophy that favors public control of property and income?

Socialism 

400

Why did Booker believe education was important? 

It was important to gain practical work based skills 

400

T or F: Work permits being easy to obtain for immigrants was one reason they came to America.

False

500

What term is used to describe ‘survival of the fittest’ applied to American Capitalism?

Social Darwinism 

500

Who made the Square deal and what did it concern? 

Teddy Roosevelt and was meant to offer fairness to all Americans (control corporations, protect consumers, and conservationism) 

500

Laissez-Faire means? 

A policy of no government involvement; literally means ‘leave it alone’

500

Which two people argued about the importance of political and social equality of African Americans? 

Booker and Dubois 

500

What is a "Push" factor for immigration and what is an example?

Something forcing a person to leave and an example is religious persecution