Unit 2: Industry & Progressivism

Key Concept Explanation

Laissez-faire

Bessemer process

Electricity

Telephone

Expansion of railroads

Mass production, assembly line

Corporations

Horizontal integration

Unit 2: Industry & Progressivism Vertical integration

Monopolies

Trusts

Robber barons vs. captains of industry

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

J.P. Morgan

Standard Oil Company

Carnegie Steel

Unit 2: Industry & Progressivism “new” immigrants of the late 19th century and early 20th century

Eastern and southern European immigrants

Push and pull factors of immigration

Angel Island

Ellis Island

Assimilation

Ghettos

Settlement houses (Hull House)

Tenement housing

Unit 2: Industry & Progressivism Political machines (Boss William Tweed, Tammany Hall)

Sherman Anti- Trust Act

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Federal Reserve Act

Social Darwinism

Labor leaders (Terence V. Powderly, Samuel Gompers, Eugene Debs) Labor Unions (KoL, AFL, IWW)

Major labor strikes (Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike)

Haymarket Square Riot Unit 2: Industry & Progressivism Child labor

Working conditions

Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

Socialist Party

Social Reformers (Mother Jones, Florence Kelley)

Muckrakers (Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair)

Trust busting

Conservation

Municipal Reforms

Voting Reforms (direct primary, initiative, referendum, recall) Women’s suffrage movement (Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt) Unit 2: Industry & Progressivism Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Sixteenth Amendment

Seventeenth Amendment

Eighteenth Amendment

Nineteenth Amendment

founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Unit 2: Industry & Progressivism W. E. B. Du Bois

Theodore Roosevelt*

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson

Progressive Party

Bull Moose Party

election of 1912*