Unit 5/6: Gilded Age - Progressivism and Reform Flashcards
According to this quote from W.E.B. Du Bois, which right was key to ending racial inequality? voting
_____ was the largest immigration processing center on the east coast until it closed in 1954. Ellis Island
Why did Ida B. Wells not fit into most racial equality groups? Because she was too radical
This amendment gave power to the Federal Government to set an income tax. 16th
Which progressive made the first settlement house? Jane Addams
This late, great fighter coined the phrase “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammad Ali
This amendment required the direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote. 17th
President ________ was known as a Progressive leader for breaking up corporate trusts, passing the Pure Food & Drug Act, and creating National Parks. Theodore Roosevelt
This amendment expanded voting rights to Women in all U.S. elections. 19th
What was the goal/purpose of establishing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? fight segregation and expand equal rights for blacks
Which sentence below best explains the Progressive Movement? The Progressive Movement was an effort to reform (improve) the problems that had come about after the Industrial Revolution.
This amendment banned the making, sale, or transporting of Alcoholic beverages. 18th
Why did so many people immigrate to the US between the years 1880 and 1950? all of the above
Why were large cities good places for immigrants to settle? Cities were growing places with factories that offered jobs.
Which former slave and founder of the Tuskegee Institute believed African Americans should learn a skill or trade and achieve equality in society over time? Booker T. Washington
What is a Muckraker? is nickname because they were “raking up” or exposing corruption in businesses and society.
How did public schools help immigrant children during the 1800s and early 1900s? School was a place where children could learn to read and write a new language, as well as learn a new culture.
Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling Pure Food and Drug Act
Upton Sinclair This muckraker is famous for writing “The Jungle”
The wealthy lived like royalty seemingly unaware of the dismal poverty that may others faced. Jacob A. Riis photographed “How the Other Half Live”. His purpose was to ______________. show the living conditions of people in poverty
Hull House Settlement house and important reform institution created to help the poor, immigrants etc.
social reformer who campaigned for women’s rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association Susan B. Anthony
an 1890 law that banned the formation of trusts and monopolies in the United States Sherman Antitrust Act
Who exposed the Standard Oil Company’s business practices? Ida Tarbell
In his book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the horrors of what industry? The meat packing industry
The author who wrote a book about the horrors of food productions in 1906, the bad quality of meat and the dangerous working conditions. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Jacob Riis Famous for his photos published in his book,
Initiative, Recall, and Referendum All three of these gives the people a more direct voice in the government.
Booker T. Washington advocated that African Americans must earn their equality
suffrage the right to vote
Journalists who specialized in uncovering corruption and scandal Mukrakers
This Anti-Trust Act prevented companies from forming monopolies and trusts Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What was Prohibition? A law that stopped the sale, manufacture, and consumption of alcohol
This President helped create the National Park System in the U.S. Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt became President after McKinley was assassinated; Pushed reform in economics and created National Parks
W.E.B. Dubois founded this organization NAACP
How did the relationship between big business and the government change during this time? Government was moving away from laissez-faire ideals as they became more involved in the everyday running of the country.
Assimilation Process by which people of one culture merge into and become part of another culture
JP Morgan An influential banker and businessman who bought and reorganized companies. His US Steel company would buy Carnegie steel and become the largest business in the world in 1901
Agrarian relating to farming or rural matters
John D. Rockefeller Wealthy owner of Standard Oil Company. Considered to be a robber baron who used ruthless tactics to eliminate other businesses. Built trusts and used money to influence government.
monopoly/trust Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
Vertical Integration Practice where a single company controls every step of the process, from the raw materials to distribution
Philanthropy charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
Bessemer Process made the production of steel more affordable.
Andrew Carnegie United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts; a “robber barron,” developed the steel industry; practiced vertical integration; believed in the “Gospel of Wealth”
political machine political organization that controls elections, by awarding jobs and other favors in exchange for votes
labor unions An organization formed by workers to strive for better wages and working conditions
horizontal integration Type of monopoly where a company controlls a majority of one step in the production process. Ex. Rockefeller
political boss representative for or head of the political machine; gained votes for their parties by doing favors for people.
Robber Barons an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.
Chinese Exclusion Act Banned all Chinese immigrants
laissez faire Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
urbanization An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in cities.
Industrialization when a country changes itself from a agricultural society into one based on factories/machines.
Social Gospel A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation.
Gilded Age 1877 - 1900’s; time period looked good on the outside, the fabulous lifestyles of the wealthy hid the many social problems of the time, including a high poverty rate, a high crime rate, and corruption in the government.
