3.1 Industrial Leaders
This is the time period following the Civil War where America saw a growth in industry.
What is the Gilded or Industrial Age?
This is the economic and political system of the early 20th Century where the government has more authority to make things fair.
What is Progressivism?
This is federal land set aside for Native Americans.
What are Reservations?
This is a policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
What is Nativism?
This is the longest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
This is the term used to describe successful business leaders during the Gilded Age who were portrayed negatively.
These are journalists who tried to improve society by exposing corruption, hazards, and social problems.
What are Muckrakers?
These are African Americans who moved from post reconstruction south to Kansas to escape discrimination
What are Exodusters?
These were multifamily urban housing developments, usually overcrowded and unsanitary, that were created to help with overcrowding in cities.
What is Tenement Housing?
Originally, Amazon only sold this type of product.
What are books?
This term is used to apply the evolutionary ideas of Charles Darwin, "survival of the fittest? to society and business.
What is Social Darwinism?
This is the process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract
What is Collective Bargaining?
This had a negative impact on Native Americans as it was created right through their own land and it destroyed all the buffalo populations
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This was the main reason why Immigrants came over to America and settled in cities.
What are job opportunities?
This person painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This is the type of monopoly when a business owns all the means of production from the ground up.
What is Vertical Integration?
These people supported the regulation of railroads and banking, the free and unlimited coinage of silver, a system of federal farm loans, the popular election of Senators, the secret ballot, a graduated income tax, an eight-hour workday, and restrictions on immigration
What are Populists?
This allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres by living on it for five years, improving it and paying about $30
What is the Homestead Act?
This law that suspended Chinese immigration into America. The ban was supposed to last 10 years, but it was expanded several times and was essentially in effect until WWII.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
In Greek mythology, this is the goddess of wisdom and warfare.
Whos is Athena?
This was the first federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This was the women's movement seeking the right to vote
What is Women's Suffrage?
This authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. It also tried to assimilation Native American's into white American Culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
This was the place in New York Harbor where immigrants first arrived. They were required to undergo physical examination before entering the US.
What is Ellis Island?
This is Mr. Day's favorite song. (Hint: Grateful Dead)
What is Althea?