Unit 2: Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration & Progressive Reform Flashcards
The group formed to ensure black men could vote under the 15th Amendment
NAACP
Law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans
Dawes Act
When Americans began buying/selling goods with unskilled labor instead of making things themselves
Market Revolution
Workers that could learn how to operate a machine at a factory with little training
Unskilled workers (unskilled labor)
Who invented the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
Someone who wanted to investigate social conditions and political reform
Muckrakers
Andrew Carnegie did what?
Co-founded the first steel company in U.S, introduced the Besmer process and allowed steel to be mass produced
Investors/people who founded new ways to operates a business or businesses, taking on great risk
Entrepreneurs
Groups formed when workers wanted better conditions
Labor unions
Jacob Riis and his book “how the other half lives” promotes..
Progressivism
Who were the Progressives? How did they address the problems at the time?
The progressives were people who believed that urbanization and industrialization was harmful to society and who addressed and improved upon those problems by bringing them to the public’s attention and moving government to pass regulations and make laws.
What were social, political and economic changes accomplished by the progressives?
Social: Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”
Political: “The Meat Inspection Act” (Theodore Roosevelt passed after reading the Jungle)
Economic: Sherman Anti-trust Act- broke up trusts and monopolies
