11.5 USHG - Gilded Age & Progressive Era | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

A major goal of the Progressive movement was to

Promote fairness and reduce corruption

Expand monopolies

Eliminate judicial review

End federal income taxes

Jane Addams is remembered for

Creating settlement houses to aid the poor

Leading anti-immigrant protests

Defending monopolies in court

Organizing railroad strikes

The Pure Food and Drug Act aimed to

Ensure safe labeling and clean products

Encourage meat exports

Stop farmers from overplanting

Increase prescription costs

Theodore Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” focused on

Regulating corporations and protecting consumers

Lowering property taxes

Ending factory inspections

Raising tariffs on imports

The 19th Amendment granted

Women the right to vote

African Americans citizenship

All immigrants U.S. visas

The banning of alcohol

The 18th Amendment was related to

Prohibiting alcohol sales

Ending child labor

Reforming elections

Banning immigration

The 17th Amendment allowed

Voters to elect U.S. senators directly

Secret ballots for primaries

Immigrants to hold office

Federal judges to serve longer terms

The 16th Amendment gave Congress the power to

Collect income taxes

Regulate trade

Set interest rates

Control state budgets

A referendum allows citizens to

Approve or reject laws directly

Vote on court decisions

Appoint government officials

Raise their own taxes

Progressive reformers believed in

Government action to solve social problems

Business control of elections

Strengthening the spoils system

Ending all regulations

Jacob Riis’s work highlighted

Poor conditions in city tenements

Racial injustice in the South

Corruption in foreign trade

Failures of the Reconstruction Amendments

Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle led to

Passage of food safety regulations

Railroad antitrust laws

A drop in food prices

Growth of meat exports

Muckrakers were

Writers who exposed corruption and injustice

Politicians who favored trusts

Bankers who funded reforms

Businessmen who ran monopolies

The Granger movement helped farmers by

Fighting unfair railroad rates

Reducing voting requirements

Encouraging westward migration

Eliminating the income tax

The Populist Party demanded reforms like

Free coinage of silver and railroad regulation

Factory ownership for women

An end to the gold standard

Abolition of paper currency

The Pendleton Act helped reform

The federal civil service system

Immigration quotas

Labor union elections

Tariff rates

Political machines gained support by

Providing jobs and services to immigrants

Attacking labor unions

Enforcing literacy tests

Supporting Prohibition laws

Tenements were known for being

Crowded and unsanitary urban buildings

Large family estates

Well-regulated by health codes

Located on the outskirts of towns

A common push factor for immigrants was

Persecution and poverty in home countries

Access to Western land

A growing U.S. middle class

American public schools

Most “New Immigrants” came from

Southern and Eastern Europe

Africa and Asia

Northern Europe and Scandinavia

South America and Australia

The Haymarket Affair caused

Public fear of unions and anarchists

Anti-trust laws to expand

Major tariff reductions

Trust in labor leaders to increase

Both the Knights of Labor and the AFL supported

Better pay and shorter workdays

Business mergers

Government-run factories

Reduced immigration

Workers formed labor unions to

Improve wages and working conditions

Buy shares in companies

End voting restrictions

Avoid paying income taxes

The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed to

Reduce the influence of monopolies

Limit the power of farmers’ cooperatives

Encourage foreign imports

Control state legislatures

The rise of monopolies in the Gilded Age led to

Less competition and higher prices

Greater product variety for consumers

Stronger worker protections

Fewer strikes and lockouts

Rockefeller used horizontal integration to

Control other companies in the same industry

Hire immigrant workers

Promote anti-trust legislation

Partner with labor unions

Andrew Carnegie is known for his work in

Steel production and philanthropy

The oil and gas industries

Railroad construction across Canada

Reforming the stock market

The Bessemer process was essential to

Producing strong, inexpensive steel

Shipping grain by rail

Extracting coal from the West

Building cotton gins in factories

“Robber baron” was a term used to criticize

Business leaders who used ruthless tactics for wealth

Civil War generals who entered politics

Farmers who raised crop prices

Judges who ruled against big business

Laissez-faire capitalism is the belief that

The economy functions best with little government

The government should set all prices

Unions must approve business practices

Foreign trade should be banned

A major reason for industrial growth after the Civil War was

Expansion of railroads and a large labor force

Declining immigration to cities

Limited access to energy resources

Government takeover of businesses

The term “Gilded Age” refers to a period when

Wealth and industrial growth masked serious social problems

Democracy expanded for all citizens

Agriculture became the leading industry

Political equality increased for minorities