Not so Progressive
This law broke up Native reservations and made heads of household private landowners
What is the Dawes Act?
Name for governmental systems that were supported by big business, while they did some good for urban areas leadership was often corrupt
What are political machines?
Author of the Gospel of Wealth, this Tycoon believed to die rich was to die disgraced
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Name for associations of workers who would use strikes as a way to protest unfair pay, long work hours and poor working conditions to name a few.
What are unions?
A person who has anti-immigrant sentiments
What is nativist?
"Americanization" of children was the focus at these institutions created in the 1880's
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
When one company controls an entire industry
What is a monopoly?
Scientific idea applied to society that summed up means: evolve or perish
What is Darwinism or Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
This political party supported worker's rights and governmental reform like the referendum and initiative.
What is the Populist Party?
Law that prohibited the sale of alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
The main industry that promoted westward expansion post Civil War and developed some of the nation's earliest monopolies
What is the railroad industry?
Muckraker who showed Americans the experience of the urban poor
Who is Jacob Riis?
Law with giant loopholes that failed to correct the problem it set out to related to big business
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Groups like the NWSA fought primarily for this cause
What is Women's Suffrage?
Name of Theodore Roosevelt's platform as president
What is the Square Deal?
This case legalized segregation in the United States
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This event highlighted the failures of one of Reconstructions most important goals: relieving Racial Tensions (must provide the year)
What is the Atlanta Race Riots of 1906?
Name two innovations that made urban life BETTER in the Gilded Age
Rise of culture (stuff to do during free time), electricity, public transportation, changes in dating norms, organization of cities, entertainment that was open to all types of people
This group rejected capitalism and had the goal of creating one large union that would have the power to own the means of production and distribution
Who are the Industrial Workers of the World or IWW?
Name TWO of the Progressive Era Amendments and their purpose
16: Federal income tax (to fund reform)
17: Direct Voting of Senators
18: Prohibition
19: Women's Suffrage
Movement in response to harsh and violent treatment of Native peoples by the US government
What is the Ghost Dance Movement?
Name THREE differences between New Immigrants and Old Immigrants.
Country of origin (North/West Europe vs. Southern/Eastern Europe), Family Units vs. Single Males, skilled workers vs unskilled workers, wanted to stay forever vs. birds of passage, worked to assimilate to American culture vs kept their own cultures, came to build a new life vs came to help economic situation at home (send money to home country)
Daily Double: Two types of music and one type of theatre that rose in popularity during the Gilded Age
What is Ragtime and Blues and Vaudeville?
THREE movements/causes supported by women in the Gilded Age/Progressive Era
Potential Answers: Women's Suffrage, Anti Lynching Legislation, temperance, orphanages, public health, feminism, poverty, hunger, worker's rights, unemployment)
Founded by Jane Addams in the 1880's, this was the first settlement house in the US
What is the Hull House?