Not liking people who aren't from your country; Favoring people from your country is the definition for?
Nativism
If a government is "hands off" you would say they are?
LAISSEZ-FAIRE
Corrupt powerful group that supported a corrupt local political party, usually the same corrupt political party that is allowing them to be powerful is the definition to ?
Political Machines
This organization was founded to promote the welfare of African-Americans?
NAACP
What is urbanization?
The growth of cities and the migration of people to them
Passed by Chester Arthur that ended the spoils system and made most government jobs civil service jobs where based off qualifications?
Pendelton Civil Service Act
Famous political boss in New York City. Was eventually arrested for his corruption?
Boss Tweed
Ivention that allowed steel to be made more efficiently.
Bessemer Process
He criticized Booker T. Washington and argued that blacks should challenge segregation and discrimination through social protest and political action?
W.E. DuBois
This business strategy involves buying out raw material suppliers?
Vertical integration
What does "Social Darwinism" mean?
"Survival of the fittest"; rich vs poor; explains why rich were rich and poor were poor
Who do these people represent?
Robber Barons
A set of laws that barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This allowed illiterate Blacks in the New South to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867?
Grandfather Clause
A market in which one company has complete control over an industry’s production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged?
A monopoly
Explain what the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did?
13th: Abolished Slavery
14th: Citizenship
15th: Voting Rights
Describe the impact of the transcontinental railroad?
Allowed goods and people to move significantly faster across the United States
Federal law that prevented unfair practices by railroads?
Interstate Commerce Act
The Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that "separate but equal" or the segregation of blacks was constitutional?
Plessy vs Ferguson
The Industrial Revolution was preceded by this other revolution?
Agricultural Revolution
Describe the working conditions for the lower class (factory workers)... be specific...( three major things)
Long Hours (12-16), Low Pay (Less than 50 cents per week on abg), Dangerous working conditions
Name the 4 Titans of Industry and what industry they had a monopoly in..
Rockefeller, Oil; Carnegie, Steel; JP Morgan, Banking; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Railroads
Formed to improve working conditions of corporate employees?
Labor Unions
These former slaves worked the land after they were freed and in return for supplies and using the land, they kept about one-half of what they grew.?
Sharecroppers
This person invented the Cotton Gin.?
Eli Whitney