These 2 inventions sparked the communication revolution
What are the telephone & the telegraph?
100
This group of immigrants faced the most discrimination because they accepted very low wages.
Who are the Chinese?
100
The main goal of the social gospel and settlement movements
What is improving living conditions for the poor?
100
A major cause of corruption in government during the Gilded Age
What is the spoils system?
100
This Labor Union was for skilled workers only
What is the AFL?
200
The business practice in which one controls all phases of a particular business or product
What is vertical consolidation?
200
This attracted many Asians to the US in the late 1800s
What are jobs with the railroads?
200
The common goal shared by prohibitionists and purity crusaders
What is improving the personal behavior of city dwellers and the immigrants?
200
The president who was assassinated that led to Civil Service Reform
Who is James A. Garfield?
200
A process through which employees negotiate as a united group rather than as individuals
What is collective bargaining?
300
This law set the precedent that private enterprise was subject go government control
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
300
According to nativists, this was a major cause of urban problems
Who are immigrants?
300
The type of service that most settlement houses offered poor city-dwellers.
What are social services?
300
The reason Jacob S. Coxey called for a march on Washington
What is demanding that the government created jobs for the unemployed?
300
A court injunction was issued during this strike.
What is the Pullman Strike?
400
How the government contributed to the building of the railroads
What are loans and land grants?
400
This was negotiated between TR and Japan that allowed Japanese children to attend American schools in exchange for Japanese workers being prohibited from coming to the US.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
400
The reformer who exposed the terrible living and working conditions faced by immigrants and the title of the book he wrote.
Who is Jacob Riis and what is "How the Other Half Lives?"
400
The reason political machines gained power in the late 1800s
What is providing for the welfare of immigrants and other city dwellers?
400
During this strike, violence erupted when Pinkertons were brought in.
What is the Homestead Strike at a Carnegie steel plant?
500
As a result, steel could be made much quicker and more efficiently.
What is the Bessemer process?
500
The reason many immigrants supported city political machines
What are jobs and other favors that political machines provided?
500
Became the first person to whom the term "landscape architect" was ever applied
Who is Frederick Olmstead?
500
This act was meant to ensure competition by making monopolies illegal but was used against Labor Unions.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
The reason the Pullman Strike is a turning point in history.
What is because it led to intervention of government in labor matters?