Social Issues
The system of social segregation in the South that existed from the end of Reconstruction through the mid-20th century.
What is Jim Crow?
The term used by people who wanted to move away from the gold standard and instead, mint silver dollars.
What is free silver?
A system in which corporations give shares of their stocks to individuals who hold them for their stockholders in order to ensure profits and curb competition.
What is a trust?
The term supported by Andrew Carnegie that said the financially successful should use their wisdom, experience, and wealth as stewards for the poor.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Inventor of alternating current and business partner of George Westinghouse.
Who is Nicola Tesla?
This Scottish immigrant was the inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
An all-women organization founded in 1874 to advocate for total abstinence from alcohol.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WTCU)?
Federal regulatory agency designed to oversee the railroad industry.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?
Investment by banks and bankers into corporations.
What is finance capitalism?
A theory in the nineteenth century that said only competition could produce societal progress and that the survival of the fittest separated the wealthy and the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
Created the largest steel corporation in the late 19th century that was later purchased by JP Morgan.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This Pacific Kingdom was overthrown in order to give the United States a foothold in order to increase trade in China.
What is Hawaii?
Began an anti-lynching campaign in the 1880s.
Who is Ida B Wells?
Effort in the 1880s to end government corruption by requiring a merit system for government jobs.
What is Civil Service Reform?
This industry, led by the Duke family, dominated the south in the late 1800s.
What is tobacco?
Who is Herbert Spencer?
Made a fortune by building a monopoly in the oil industry.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
This event led many Americans to support war with Spain.
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
New York journalist who founded the first women’s club, the Sorosis Club in New York
Who is Jane Cunningham Croly (Jennie June)?
The system in which politicians doled out government positions to loyal supporters.
What is the spoils system?
When the US attempted to ban trusts in 1890, Rockefeller and other businessmen shifted to this model.
What is holding?
Atlanta Constitution editor who advocated for the south to compete with the north in industry
Who is Henry Grady?
The most successful financial capitalist in the late 19th century.
Who is JP Morgan?
The Boxer Uprising in China was a revolt against this.
What is White Christian influence?
Women marching into taverns, holding Bibles, singing hymns, and demanding the owner no longer serve liquor, was known as this event.
What is the Women's Crusade?
The spoils system led to the split of the Republican Party into three factions: the Stalwarts, the Half-Breeds, and this group, who wanted to create a civil service.
Who are Mugwumps?
These two regions were hurt most by the tariffs of the late 19th century.
What is the South and West?
Carnegie mastered this business system, in which one company own all means of production.
What is vertical integration?
Made a fortune by buying failing railroads, repairing them, and selling them for a profit
Who is Jay Gould?
This early 19th century policy, named for the president who created it, allowed American business to dominate Central America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?