Gilded Age
What region were most factories?
What economic practice did most politicians support during the Gilded Age?
What is laissez faire economics
What is called when people move from a rural area to cities?
Who was the first Progressive President?
Theodore Roosevelt
Which president is responsible for the 16th and 17th amendments?
Woodrow Wilson
What was one of the 5 major reasons the U.S was able to grow so quickly?
What is natural resources, railroad subsidies, tariffs, labor policies, expansion to international markets
Which groups of people struggled the worst during the Gilded Age?
Farmers and Factory workers
What were the two reasons African Americans left the south and moved to the North?
Who wrote the book that exposed the meatpacking industry?
Upton Sinclair
What was the name given to people who helped immigrants out but wanted favors in return?
Political Bosses/Machines
What connected the west and east together?
Transcontinental Railroad
The populist party wanted to switch to what?
Silver
What type of segregation was used in the North?
De facto
Most progressives belonged to which social class?
Middle Class
Immigrants arriving to the U.S from Europe arrived where?
Ellis Island
What materials are needed to build railroads?
Steel, Wood, Coal
What laws were passed to help farmers during the Gilded Age?
Granger Laws and Interstate Commerce Act
What ethnic groups were coming to the U.S from Europe during this time? (Big 3)
Italians, Polish, and Russians
What did the Sherman-Anti Trust Act do?
Break up monopolies and trusts
What was the popular way to punish/kill African Americans in the South?
Lynching
What type of integration system did Andrew Carnegie use?
What is vertical integration
What were the 3 important strikes that led to a distrust of labor unions?
Haymarket Square Riot, Railroad Strike of 1877, Pullman Strike
What is the name given to people who oppose immigrants?
Nativist
What ended the progressive movement?
WWI
What economic system is used in the U.S?
Capitalism