Show:
Big Business
Urbanization
Progressive Era
Regulations
Immigration
100
During the late 19th century, businesses tried to maximize profits by: A) eliminating tariffs B) supporting labor unions C) resisting laissez-faire policies D) creating monoploies
What is D) creating monoploies?
100
The poor lived in cramped urban housing called:
What are slums?
100
An investigative journalist who exposed societal problems.
What is a muckraker?
100
Many of the business trusts created in the late 1800s were eventually declared illegal primarily because they: 1) eliminated competition by forming monopolies 2) combined companies that manufactured different products 3) donated large sums of money to political candidates 4) allowed children to work in unsafe conditions
What is 1) eliminated competition by forming monopolies?
100
Ellis Island
The processing center for the vast majority of immigrants arriving on the East Coast of the United States was called?
200
John D. Rockefeller was involved in this industry.
What is oil?
200
This African American leader pushed for vocational education to assist African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
The rich are taxed higher and the poor are taxed less - the more you make, the more you are taxed.
What is progressive income tax?
200
This is the government policy that made the selling, manufacturing, and transportation of alcohol illegal.
What is Prohibition?
200
Southern and Eastern Europe
Most new immigrants who came to America in the late nineteenth century came from what part of the world?
300
The industry that Andrew Carnegie was involved in.
What is steel?
300
These organizations include the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor, and were a response to unsafe working regulations.
What are labor unions?
300
The Direct Election of Senators, federal income tax, and national woman's suffrage have this in common
What are Progressive Era Constitutional Amendments?
300
Building codes requiring fire escapes, exit doors that open outward, on-site fire-fighting equipment (that works), wider staircases, fire drills, fire alarms and later sprinkler systems
The tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to what reforms?
300
China
The Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited immigrants from what country to come to America?
400
A term for a big businessman who will undercut rates, create monoploies, and control all aspects of an industry
What is a Rober Baron?
400
Many wanted immigrants to abandon their way of life and identity to become more "American." This is known as
What is assimilation?
400
Two of the Progressive Era efforts to increase citizen participation in government
What are: primaries secret ballot referendum recall direct election of senators woman's suffrage
400
The movement that attracted the support of western farmers by trying to regulate shipping rates and grain storage feeds charged by railroads.
What is The Granger Movement?
400
Nativism
Hostility towards immigrants is called? Ex. A sign that reads "Irish are not welcome!"
500
The theory that the "rich are the fittest to lead" and "the poor are poor because they deserve to be poor" is known as.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
This man wrote the book "How the Other Half Lives"
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
The government system that was established to regulate the money supply and interest rates
What is the Federal Reserve?
500
The Pure Food and Drug Act & the Meat Inspection Act were passed in response to this book by this author
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
500
Jane Addams
What reformer established the Hull House to aid and educate the urban poor, especially the immigrants?