Gilded Age/Progressives

Government should give assistance to people who can't make it on their own

Weak and struggling people should not receive government assistance

The rewards of a booming economy should be distributed evenly among all citizens

Even poor people should give to charity when possible

improving opportunities to create more trusts and monopolies

reducing or ending racism

improving the fairness of elections

improving the living and working conditions of the poor

blacklisting

Social Darwinism

sweatshops

xenophobia

oligarchs

stores

private business

competition

vertical integration

laissez-faire

horizontal integration

monopoly

Workers seized the factory after the manager locked them out for refusing to work faster

Railroads cut wages and workers in Baltimore and Ohio walked off the job. Workers blocked trains and the state militia was called in, then eventually the army came to stop the strike.

Employees were laid off and wages were cut but rent was not cut or grocery prices reduced. Federal troops were called in to break the strike.

There was so much loyalty to the company that when a few employees went on strike other workers supported the company instead of their fellow workers

make trusts pay higher taxes

promote competition and free trade

improve working conditions

prevent monopolies

the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote

Initiative: allows voters to initiate or propose a law

Recall: to remove an elected official from office by calling a special election

Referendum: allows citizens to vote on a proposed or existing law

led by coal miners

looking to increase tariffs

led by poor farmers

another term for Social Darwinism

was mainly a Protestant Christian

were mainly Catholic, Jews or Orthodox Christians

a Chinese adventurer hoping to strike it rich in the gold rush or work on the railroad

from Eastern or Southern Europe