US History: "Towards a Modern Society"

In the late 19th Century, businesses formed trusts

In the late 1800s, what groups were formed to improve conditions for workers?

An American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, reformer ; the 26th President.

Plessy v. Ferguson, Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of

Island in New York harbor that served as station for millions of immigrants arriving to the US

Settlement Houses, like Hull House, engaged in all of the following activities EXCEPT

What was the MAIN goal of the Progressive Movement?

Island in San Francisco Bay that served as a station for immigrants coming to the West Coast/US

Exclusive control by one company over an entire industry.

Group of separate companies placed under control of a single managing board to form a monopoly.

Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.

Society in which people of different nationalities assimilate to form one culture.

Famous inventor: light bulb, film projector, and phonograph w/ many other important inventions.

About 300 Lakota Indians were massacred; the last major action b/w U.S./Native American tribes.

How did RRs assist in the growth of industry?

A person who invests money in a product or business with the goal of making a profit.

Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.

Which of the following contributed to the rapid growth of cities?

What SPECIFIC industry was John D. Rockefeller associated with?

Investigative Journalist who exposed the problem of industrial society in order to reform them.

The process by which a person acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group.

Businessman who consolidated the Standard Oil Company/made millions with the oil industry.

Term describes wealthy business owner who engaged in unfair/anti-competitive business practices

Violent 1894 railway workers' strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide.

Battle was one of the few victories that Native Americans had over U.S. troops in the 19th c.?

Why did Jane Addams establish Hull House in Chicago?

How did Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle impact the meatpacking industry?

Multi-story building divided into apartments to house as many families as possible.

Labor union that organized skilled workers into specific trade/demand rather than broad change.

What was the goal of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

How were the American Federation of Labor and Knights of Labor different?

Law the banned the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol within the United States

Which practice does the photo above show that Progressive leaders were trying to regulate?

Large-scale or important financial or commercial activity.

Scottish born immigrant who consolidated the U.S. Steel Corporation into a monopoly.

The main reason Chinese immigrated to the U.S. from the 1850s until 1882 was

Which of the following BEST explains Roosevelt's view of conservation?

Movement that worked to reform the problems caused by industrial society.

Why did Ida Tarbell write a series of articles against Standard Oil?

1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce.

Law that gave women the right to vote

Which law did Congress pass in 1906 to require that food and drugs be labeled correctly?

The legal codes that established the system of segregation were know as. . .

Immigrants arriving b/w 1880 and 1900 settled in cities along the east coast because:

Railway that linked the eastern and the western United States.