Big Business & the Gilded Age
This term describes the era's contradiction of new opportunity paired with significant poverty and inequality.
What is the Gilded Age?
This is the name for workers uniting to negotiate as one group instead of individually.
What is a union?
This reformer's photographs and journalism linked what people could see in NYC tenements to larger concerns about poverty and reform.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This belief holds that government should take an active role in fixing problems caused by industrialization and city growth.
What is Progressivism?
This U.S. policy originally warned European nations against intervening in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This is what happened to prices and production once businesses could compete nationally instead of just locally.
What is prices went down and production increased?
These two organizations led the labor movement during the Gilded Age.
What are the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor?
This term describes investigative journalists who used evidence to expose social and industrial problems.
What are muckrakers?
During this 1902 event, Roosevelt intervened in a conflict between miners and coal mine owners.
What is the Coal Strike?
This policy expanded on the Monroe Doctrine, claiming a bigger U.S. role in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (Big Stick Diplomacy)?
This business strategy involves controlling different stages of production, and was used by Andrew Carnegie.
What is vertical integration?
Name two of the major strikes we studied from this era.
What are (any two of) the Great Railroad Strike, Haymarket Affair, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, or Paterson Silk Strike?
This muckraker investigated Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This was the name of Roosevelt's approach, focused on protecting ordinary citizens, regulating big business, and preserving natural resources.
What is the Square Deal?
This major U.S. engineering project in Latin America is a case study of Big Stick Diplomacy.
What is the Panama Canal?
This business strategy involves buying out competitors in the same stage of production, and was used by John D. Rockefeller.
What is horizontal integration?
This is what most major Gilded Age strikes were met with, from both companies and the government.
What is strong resistance?
This muckraker investigated the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This is what Roosevelt's involvement in the 1902 Coal Strike showed about the federal government's changing role.
What is a more active federal role in labor disputes that affected the public?
In the election of 1912, this political party split when Roosevelt broke away to run under the Bull Moose Party.
What is the Republican Party?
This was the name of Rockefeller's oil company, which came to dominate the industry.
What is Standard Oil?
This is what comparing strikes like the Homestead and Pullman Strikes reveals about labor during the Gilded Age.
What is that workers kept pushing back but strikes often failed to overcome resistance?
This tragedy in the garment industry, caused by unsafe factory conditions, helped spur labor reform.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Name one of the three focuses of Roosevelt's Square Deal.
What is protecting ordinary citizens / regulating big business / preserving natural resources?
These two leaders differed in their approaches to achieving racial equality; one focused on vocational education and gradual progress, the other on immediate political rights.
Who are Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois?