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Unit 2 Vocab
US History- Industrial Revolution & Progressivism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A movement promoted by reformers who felt it was their Christian duty to improve the living conditions of the poor. Jane Addams opened Hull House in 1889 and inspired many others. | Settlement House |
| Political Party known as Populism emerged to increase the political power of farmers and to work for legislation for farmers’ interests | Populist Party |
| When the government does not interfere with business “hands off | Laissez Faire |
| Reform movement that occurred in the early 1900s as a response to the problems created from industrializationWaged war on monopolies, corruption, inefficiency, and social injusticeGoal: To strengthen role of government in ensuring human welfare. | Progressivism |
| One company controls all the business of an industry. | Monopoly |
| A businessmen who uses ruthless business tactics | Robber Baron |
| This is when a company owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for its operation.Instead of paying other businesses for their services, they own all aspects of production and delivery. | Vertical Integration |
| This is when a company takes over or buys out a competitor in an effort to gain market share.When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it becomes a monopoly. | Horizontal Integration |
| an informal political group designed to keep powerProvided essential services for immigrantsImmigrants created significant voting strength that these politicians needed | Political Machine |
| No matter how humble, simple, or poor your beginnings, it is still possible to move up economically and socially in society.Many felt that America was the place to go from “rags to riches”. | Individualism |
| This concept of “survival of the fittest” was applied to human society as occurring naturally.It is used to explain poverty and to justify class distinctions and the imbalances of power between races and nations. | Social Darwinism |
| Wealthy Americans had the responsibility to donating money to further social progress.Carnegie donated millions. | Gospel of Wealth |
| From about 1870 to 1920, religious reformers strove to improve conditions in the cities according to the biblical ideals of charity and justice. American YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) | Social Gospel Movement |
| This was a process in which immigrant school children were taught the English language as well as culture.The purpose was assimilate ethnic immigrant groups into the dominant culture | Americanization |
| Writers who exposed filth and corruption in societyWrote about other social injustices: slums, child labor, industrial accidents, lack of regulations concerning medicine | Muckrackers |
| Required federal inspection of meat. Set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plantsBrought about by Upton Sinclair's “The Jungle” | Meat Inspection Act |
| Wanted banks to end its monopoly and to be able to put more currency in market when necessary1913 Federal Reserve ActCreated Federal Reserve Board—oversees regional reserve districts and banks | Federal Reserve |
| A small island in New York Harbor. It served as a processing center for most immigrants arriving on the East Coast after 1892 | Ellis Island |
| A preference for native-born people and the desire to limit immigration. directed towards the Irish, Asians, Jews, and eastern Europeans | Nativism |
| Under Roosevelt's presidency Congress gave this agency the Power to regualte the nations railroad rates | Interstate Commerce Comission |
| Amendment that allows Congress to charge an income tax without regard to the States | sixteenth |
| Amendment that provides for the direct election of Senators by the people of a state rather than their election or appointment by a state legislature. | seventeenth |
| Amendment that Prohibits the sale of alcohol | eighteenth |
| Amendment that granted women's suffrage (the right to vote). | nineteenth |
| 1890, first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts; it was named for Senator John Sherman . | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| In 1912 President William Taft created this agency to "investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." | Children's Bureau |
| The majority of urban dwellers were part of the working class who lived in these dark and crowded multi-family apartments | tenements |
| Term coined by Mark Twain - meaning a layer of glitter over a cheap base.Violence, Crime, Fires, Disease, Pollution, Improper Sewage, and corruption | Gilded Age |
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