Unit 9 Vocabulary

Question 1

Modernization

Answer 1

The process of making a system more modern.

Question 2

Industrialization

Answer 2

The process of moving towards industrial production generally through assembly lines and factory production.

Question 3

Assembly line

Answer 3

Credited to Henry Ford, a process of making a product a piece at a time. One worker is responsible for only one part of the finished product.

Question 4

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 4

Teapot Dome Scandal, in American history, scandal of the early 1920s surrounding the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall.

Question 5

Corruption

Answer 5

Bad business practices, generally illegal and only beneficial to the owners of the company.

Question 6

Laissez Faire Capitalism

Answer 6

Allowing companies to earn as much as they want in whatever manner they wish with little to no government involvement.

Question 7

Social Darwinism

Answer 7

The belief that only the strong survive as applied to economics. Basically if you are poor, you deserve to suffer.

Question 8

Gospel of Wealth

Answer 8

Extremely wealthy Americans have a responsibility to spend their money to benefit the greater good.

Question 9

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 9

Scottish American industrialist and philanthropist who wrote the “Gospel of Wealth”

Question 10

Populist

Answer 10

farmers, laborers and middle class activists working for economic change in late 1800s.

Question 11

Unions

Answer 11

Groups of employees who join together to protest for better pay, benefits, etc.

Question 12

Progressive

Answer 12

early 1900s movement focused on ending political corruption and reducing the power of corporations

Question 13

Booker T. Washington

Answer 13

African American educator and author who focused on education for black people (founded Tuskegee Institute)

Question 14

WEB Debois

Answer 14

Most influential African American advocate of his time, co founder of the NAACP, advocated for full equality for African Americans.

Question 15

Jane Addams

Answer 15

social worker, feminist and women’s suffragist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Question 16

Alice Paul

Answer 16

A leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, helped passage of 19th Amendment.

Question 17

Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 17

Helped pass the 19th Amendment and founded the League of Women Voters

Question 18

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Answer 18

26th President of the US, championed progressive Food and Drug and Anti-trust legislation

Question 19

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 19

28th president, committed US to WWI to make the world safe for democracy

Question 20

Indigenous

Answer 20

people who are descendants of people who are native to a particular land (for our purposes, North America).