Industrialization and Progressivism

Question 1

Social Darwinism

Answer 1

Based on Darwin’s theory, survival of the fittest

Question 2

Prohibition

Answer 2

Ban on production and sale of alcohol

ALCOHOL

Question 3

Referendum

Answer 3

Local and state elections, people vote on issues

VOTING

Question 4

New Freedom

Answer 4

Wilson’s reform program, transferring power, trusts to small businesses, restrict corporate influence, reduce corruption
PROGRESSIVE REFORM

Question 5

Federal reserve system

Answer 5

Manages nations money supply, passed under Wilson

Question 6

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 6

Idealist, scholarly, new freedom, Clayton antitrust act, Keating Owen child labor act, federal reserve act, 16, 18, and 19th amendments
PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT

Question 7

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 7

Impulsive, shrewd, active, Sherman antitrust act, break monopolies, meat inspection act, pure food and drug act, national forest service, arbitration
PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT

Question 8

William Taft

Answer 8

Quiet, reserved, TR’s puppet, 90 lawsuits against trusts, children’s bureau, 17th amendment, referendum
PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENT

Question 9

William Tweed

Answer 9

Political machine/boss, Tammany hall in NY

Question 10

“Mother” Jones

Answer 10

Labor activist on behalf of coal miners

MUCKRAKERS

Question 11

Jacob Riis

Answer 11

Journalist

MUCKRAKER

Question 12

Upton Sinclair/ The Jungle

Answer 12

Wrote a book on unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants

MUCKRAKER

Question 13

John Muir

Answer 13

Preservation of wilderness

MUCKRAKER

Question 14

Jane Addams

Answer 14

Social reformer who worked in Chicago, Jane Addams hull house- settlement house
MUCKRAKER

Question 15

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 15

Carnegie Steel, Vertical integration, philanthropist, captain of industry,
BIG BUSINESS

Question 16

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 16

Standard oil, horizontal integration, monopoly, robber Barron, bad rep
BIG BUSINESS

Question 17

Muckraker

Answer 17

Brought to attention political, social, and environmental problems

Question 18

Square Deal

Answer 18

Roosevelt’s reform program, regulate big business, protect workers and consumers
PROGRESSIVE REFORMS

Question 19

16th amendment

Answer 19

1913, income tax

PROGRESSIVE REFORM

Question 20

17th amendment

Answer 20

1913, direct election of senators, gave average citizens more influence in the senate
PROGRESSIVE REFORM

Question 21

18th Amendment

Answer 21

1919, prohibiting alcohol, repealed by 21st amendment

TEMPERANCE, PROHIBITION, PROGRESSIVE REFORM

Question 22

19th amendment

Answer 22

1920, women’s suffrage

PROGRESSIVE REFORM

Question 23

Extractive industry

Answer 23

Businesses that take mineral resources from the earth

Question 24

Disenfranchised

Answer 24

Deprive someone of a right of citizenship or privilege

Question 25

Lynching

Answer 25

Hanging, especially with African Americans, Jim Crow laws

Question 26

Temperance Movement

Answer 26

Called for illegalization of alcohol, people thought alcohol was the root of their problems ALCOHOL

Question 27

Investors

Answer 27

A provider of money for a corporation

Question 28

Socialism

Answer 28

Means of production are owned by people rather than by capitalists and landowners TYPES OF GOVT

Question 29

Capitalism

Answer 29

Privately owned businesses, free market economy, free enterprise system TYPES OF GOVT

Question 30

Patent

Answer 30

Excludes others from making, using, selling a product

Question 31

Factors of production

Answer 31

Land, labor, Capitol

Question 32

Monopoly

Answer 32

A company that dominates a particular industry | BIG BUSINESS

Question 33

Trust

Answer 33

A set of companies that prevents companies in the trust from competing with each other BIG BUSINESS

Question 34

Telephone and Telegraph

Answer 34

Sped up communication

Question 35

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 35

Break monopolies and trusts, went against laissez faire, full of vague language, used by Roosevelt BIG BUSINESS

Question 36

Robber Baron

Answer 36

Some industrialists were given this name since they hurt workers, corrupted officials, and damaged the enviornment BIG BUSINESS

Question 37

Vertical integration

Answer 37

Controls each step in production and distribution of a product, used by Carnegie BUSINESS STRATEGY

Question 38

Horizontal integration

Answer 38

Merges as many firms from the same industry as possible, used by Rockefeller BIG BUSINESS

Question 39

Laissez Faire

Answer 39

Gov't doesn't touch free market

Question 40

Steerage

Answer 40

Below main deck of a ship, most immigrants stayed here | IMMIGRATION

Question 41

Frederick Taylor

Answer 41

Studied each task, and made it more efficient, increased productivity, cheaper goods

Question 42

Assembly line

Answer 42

Made by Henry ford, followed Taylor's research, increased productivity, cheaper goods

Question 43

Gilded Age

Answer 43

Book by mark twain, politicians led glittering lives, but were corrupt

Question 44

Collective bargaining

Answer 44

Negotiating between employers and employees | LABOR

Question 45

Yellow dog contracts

Answer 45

Written pledges not to join a labor union, employers made workers sign these LABOR

Question 46

Labor union

Answer 46

A group of workers organized to protect the interests of its members LABOR

Question 47

Corporation

Answer 47

A company that exists independently from its owners

Question 48

Strike

Answer 48

Employees refuse to go to work until their demands are met, most powerful tool of a labor union LABOR

Question 49

Push factor

Answer 49

Pushes people to leave home country, Irish potato famine, pogroms, IMMIGRATION

Question 50

Pull factor

Answer 50

Pulls people to us, jobs, America letters | IMMIGRATION

Question 51

Chinese exclusion act

Answer 51

Prohibited immigration of Chinese laborers, Chinese in us can't be citizens, first immigration restriction IMMIGRATION

Question 52

Nativism

Answer 52

Favoring interests of native born Americans over immigrants

Question 53

Progressive Reforms

Answer 53

Used by progressive presidents to better economy, wanted progress in us

Question 54

Big business

Answer 54

Increase Competition = more choice for consumers

Question 55

Labor

Answer 55

Workers came together and fought for better wages, working conditions, and shorter hours

Question 56

Pendleton act

Answer 56

Created civil service commission to administer exams for some gov't jobs

Question 57

Direct primaries

Answer 57

Voters decide their party's candidates | ELECTIONS

Question 58

Recall

Answer 58

Voters can remove an elected official through a direct vote | ELECTIONS

Question 59

Elections

Answer 59

People would have more influence in the gov't