Gilded Age
What is it called when a company has complete control over a product or service?
Monopoly
Who was known as a Trust buster?
Teddy Roosevelt
A group of investors who come together as a group and share ownership of a company?
Corporation
What did the 19th amendment do?
Gave women the vote
Term for the idea that people could come from many places but would be ‘blended together’?
Melting Pot
T or F: Child labor was common in the 1800s
True
Which event led to building codes and government regulation of business?
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Rights to exclusively develop, use and sell inventions for a period of time
Patent
Why were women preferred to work in sweatshops?
They could be paid less than men
T or F: Conflicts over land and resources as settlers moved westward caused the Indian Wars
True
Vertical or Horizontal integration: Merging competing firms into one big company.
Horizontal
Which act made monopolies illegal?
Sherman Antitrust
Where people try negotiating as a group with the employer for higher wages and better working conditions?
Collective Bargaining
Who founded the settlement house (Hull House)?
Jane Addams
What happened as a result of the Indian Wars?
What were the causes of the Pullman strike?
Reduced wages and high rent
Which court case upheld the principle of "separate but equal"?
Plessy v Ferguson
The economic and political philosophy that favors public control of property and income?
Socialism
Why did Booker believe education was important?
It was important to gain practical work based skills
T or F: Work permits being easy to obtain for immigrants was one reason they came to America.
False
What term is used to describe ‘survival of the fittest’ applied to American Capitalism?
Social Darwinism
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)
Laissez-Faire means?
A policy of no government involvement; literally means ‘leave it alone’
Which two people argued about the importance of political and social equality of African Americans?
Booker and Dubois
What is a "Push" factor for immigration and what is an example?
Something forcing a person to leave and an example is religious persecution