Big Business & Industrialists
What business practice involves a corporation owning not only the final production process, but also all the raw materials and resources needed for production?
What is Vertical Integration?
What term describes a factor that attracts immigrants to a new country, such as the desire for economic advancement and better job opportunities?
What is a Pull Factor?
What overcrowded residential buildings in industrial cities were notorious for poor sanitation, few windows, and severe fire hazards?
What are Tenements?
Which Constitutional Amendment was passed during the Progressive Era to grant women full voting rights nationwide?
What is the 19th Amendment?
How did the federal government actively encourage the construction of transcontinental railroads across the American West?
What is providing federal land grants and financial subsidies?
Industrialists like Cornelius Vanderbilt held complete control over railroad operations, shipping prices, tracks, and stations. What did this degree of control illustrate?
What is Total Monopoly / Unchecked Corporate Power?
What argument would a Nativist most strongly support regarding immigration?
What is "Immigration is bad for the country because immigrants take jobs and corrupt American culture"?
Which journalist and photographer published images of urban poverty to raise public awareness about tenement conditions?
Who is Jacob Riis?
Which region of the United States demonstrated the earliest and strongest support for women's suffrage prior to 1919?
What is the West?
What major consequence did railroad expansion and white settlement have on Plains Indian populations?
What is the destruction of the buffalo herds (their primary source of food, shelter, and clothing)?
Cartoons depicting large trusts like the Standard Oil Company influencing government decisions implied the Senate was primarily serving whose interests?
Who is Big Business, Captains of Industry, Robber Barons?
Which 1882 law was supported by Nativists to block immigrants from a specific Asian nation?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
What primary factor drove rapid urbanization and massive population shifts toward Northern and Midwestern cities?
What is Industrialization?
In 1909, W.E.B. DuBois helped found which organization to provide legal and political support to African Americans?
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
Late 19th-century political cartoons often depicted Eastern financial interests and banks profiting at the expense of which Western group?
Who are Western Farmers?
What best describes how working-class effort interacted with wealthy industrialists in the late 19th century?
"The wealthy benefited directly from the efforts and labor of the working class"?
What theory of immigration suggests that diverse foreign cultures melt together and assimilate into a single homogenous American culture?
What is the Melting Pot Theory?
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906, exposing horrific conditions in which Chicago industry?
What is the Meatpacking Industry?
What was the primary goal shared by the Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, and Clayton Antitrust Act?
What is increasing federal government regulation of business?
What federal law passed in 1862 offered 160 acres of free Western land to settlers who agreed to farm it for five years?
What is the Homestead Act?
How did the federal government frequently interact with labor unions during major strikes in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
What is suppressing strikes through government intervention/military action?
What major disagreement existed among Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries regarding immigration policy?
What is whether to maintain open-door immigration or enforce literacy tests and strict quotas?
What regulatory law was passed by Congress directly following public outcry over The Jungle?
What is the Meat Inspection Act (or Pure Food and Drug Act), Helped create the FDA?
Which Constitutional Amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people rather than state legislatures?
What is the 17th Amendment?
What economic doctrine, which advocates for minimal government intervention in business, was increasingly challenged by farmers and Progressive reformers
What is Laissez-Faire Economics?