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Gilded Age Politics
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Rise of Big Business
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100
This was the name of laws in the South that were aimed at separating the races.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100

A group of people who fight for better pay and working conditions:

What are Labor Unions?

100
This was the method introduced in America by Andrew Carnegie for mass-producing affordable, high quality steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
100

The wave of "new immigrants" to America after 1880 came from this region.

What is southern/eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, Russia) and/or China?

100
This was the name of investigative journalists in the Progressive Era that exposed problems in society.
Who are muckrakers?
200
This law was passed in response to nativist fears of Chinese immigrants.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)?
200

This was the first nationwide labor union, open to all workers. Hint: "Higher Heights, Montview..."

Who were the Knights of Labor?

200

This process involves owning all means of production, from resource extraction to distribution & sale. This was utilized by Andrew Carnegie to dominate the steel industry. 

What is vertical integration?

200
This was the name of the publication that exposed the horrid conditions in meatpacking facilities in the late 1800s.
What is "The Jungle?"
200

This black intellectual took a more conservative approach to Civil Rights and believed the path to racial equality was through working with white people. He noted that AA's should "cast down their bucket" to accept their place in society. 

Who is Booker T. Washington?

300
The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established this doctrine, which permitted segregation in the U.S.
What is "separate but equal" facilities?
300

As a result of this war, the U.S. gains Guam, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines.

What is the Spanish-American War?

300

Farmers often felt like they were taken advantage of by this industry (by overcharging):

Who is the railroad industry?

300

Squalid housing situations in large cities where large families would often live in confined quarters. What are these housing units called?

What is Tenement Houses?

300
This was the founder of Hull House and a major leader in the settlement house movement to aid the urban poor.
Who is Jane Addams?
400
This is the philosophy of government having a “hands off” approach to the economy and trade between individuals and society.
What is "laissez-faire?"
400

This labor union, led by Eugene Debs, which sought to unite all of the workers in any industry of the world. Largely promoted socialist ideals of "equality" and "shared ownership" to all workers, rather than the bosses. 

What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?

400

What is the name for EACH of the laws that were established in an effort to break up monopolies?

What are the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts?

400

This muckraker photographed the tenements of New York City, showing the world the reality of poor urban living.

Who is Jacob Riis?

400

This organization was founded in 1909 in the midst of the Progressive era to achieve racial equality as a result of the Niagra Movement.  W.E.B. DuBois was one of its founders.

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

500

Who were the three "Progressive Presidents"?

Who is Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?

500

A form of intense nationalism that promotes imperialist ideologies. Remember, Mr. Arnesen said this is one of his favorite words!

What is Jingoism?

500

As a result of discontent from both farmers and workers, this political party formed in an effort to help the "common man".  

What is the Populist or "People's Party"?

500

Jane Addams promoted this movement to solve the issues facing poor urban immigrants. 

  • Helped immigrants adjust to life in American cities
  • Provided services like health care, education, and job training

Similar to Homeless Shelters. 

What is the Settlement House Movement?

500

Name at TWO Progressive Era amendment and what each did:

16th: income tax

17th: direct election of Senators

18th: prohibition of alcohol 

19th: women's suffrage