Rise of Industrial America MHS

An attempt by the US Government to Americanize the Native American. Reservations were divided into family-sized plots.

______ is when a business grows by acquiring a similar company in their industry at the same point of the supply chain.

Anti-immigrant movement with feelings of hostility for immigrants. It favored people or products that were American.

Which group did not benefit from the Progressive era reforms?

George Westinghouse, George Pullman, Alexander Graham Bell & Thomas Edison are ____.

_________ has historically led to ________ by creating economic growth and job opportunities that draw people to cities.

A founder of the NAACP, felt African Americans should fight for equality & promoted higher education for his race.

The Pure Food and Drug Act and Anti-Trust regulation are examples of

This Democratic candidate was also nominated by the Populists in the election in 1896.

Tammany Hall, controlled by Boss W. M. Tweed, was a politcal machine that controlled politics in NYC in the late 1800s.

How did illiterate, poor white people avoid the voting requirement?

The Social Gospel Movement was a social movement promoting solving social problems using Christian principles.

Which is not true of Old Immigrants?

How did Jim Crowe laws affect African Americans?

The man who founded Standard Oil and used horizontal integration to control the oil business.

The Interstate Commerce Act, the Sherman Antitrust Act, and the Clayton Antitrust act

This amendment was was written to give voters more control in elections.

The first government attempt to regulate business (1887) required railroads to charge fair rates and publish rates.

The United States Federal Reserve was established to

Jane Addams founded this place to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people.

What was the title of the book by Upton Sinclair that revealed the horrors of the Chicago meat packing industry?

He founded Tuskegee Institute & felt that gaining economic equality would lead to social equality for African Americans.

What act banned some Asians from immigrating to America and denied citizenship to the immigrants from that country?

The one commonality the Homestead, Haymarket and Pullman Strikes have in common is _______________.

The one belief shared by Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson was that the Federal government should ____________.

The Progressive "Bull Moose" Party nominated Franklin Roosevelt as its 1912 candidate for president.

What was accomplished by the transcontinental railroad?

Who is the muckraker who exposed Rockerfeller's (Standard Oil) corruption.

During the Progressive Era the government _______.

What was the phrase coined by Mark Twain where the top 5% lived extravagantly while 86% were impoverished (1865-1900).

What was done to prevent African Americans from voting in elections?

The Railroad Baron known as the Commodore that truly represented the "Gilded Age"; a college in Tennesee bears his name.

Who won the election of 1912?

Poverty, unemployment and corruption are all characteristic of ________.

The name of the island where most immigrants come into America.

In 1862, anyone willing to migrate west to settle and develop the land was given free land. What act provided for this?

Which is not true about New Immigrants?

A movement for the common people where the government owns the railroads, promotes bimetallism, and 8 hour workdays.

______ is when a business expands by acquiring another company that operates before or after them in the supply chain.

What was the function of a settlement house?

Which is NOT characteristic of the government during the Gilded Age?

__________ was the first president of the American Federation of Labor.

The process by which minority groups gradually adopt the culture of the majority group.

The _____ amendment created the income tax; the _____ amendment gave women the right to vote.

The belief that government should keep out of business and limit regulations is....

Amendment that gave the right to vote to women.

Which of the following amendments gives government more control over the taxes collected from citizens?

When big companies form an alliance to stop competition. They influence Senators with money, resulted in 16th amendment.

First Federal action against monopolies, signed into law by President Harrison; Busted Trusts & promoted free trade.

How did the government regulate business during the Progressive Era?

Which demand was made by the Populist Party platform in 1892?

Probably the most successful banker of the Gilded Age. He bought Carnegie Steel; merging it with other steel companies.

Which party favored graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, free coinage of silver, RR regulation & farmers.

Battle in which Sioux Indians were massacred by US soldiers

Who was William Jennings Bryan?

The belief that the strongest societies and businesses will survive, used to justify monopolies and trusts.

Federal prosecutions of corporations like Standard Oil and AT&T were based upon ________.

Steel magnate; founded a steel company fueling the Industrial Revolution; multi-millionaire employing tens of thousands.

How did Teddy Roosevelt bust up bad trusts?

Political machines were run by city bosses.

The Union organization blamed for the Haymarket Strike was _________.

This supports using gold and silver as a basis for U. S. Currency.

Which statement best summarized President Theodore Roosevelt’s views?

Plessy v. Ferguson

Initiative, recall and referendum resulted in

Muckrackers were