USVA (CATEGORY): POST CIIVL WAR--> WW2

Anti-trust laws

• Helped fight political corruption

• Helped fight big business

• Helped pass Child labor laws

• Helped pass Jim Crow laws

Andrew Carnegie

• Oil

• Steel

• Finance

• Railroads

Chinese Immigrants

• helped build the Panama Canal

• helped build the transcontinental Railroad

• helped build ships for the Spanish American War

• helped build mechanical reapers

The issues of the Gilded Age led to

• the Progressive Movement

• Environmental issues

• Women's suffrage Movements

• larger Monopolies to form

Prior to 1871 (Civil War) immigrants came from

• Western/northern Europe

• Eastern/Southern Europe

• Asia

• Latin America

Post 1871 (Civil War)

• Western/Northern Europe

• Eastern/Southern Europe

• Latin America

• Asia

Labor Unions

• formed strikes

• tried to help Robber Barrons

• fought for women's suffrage

Investigative Journalist

• Muckrakers

• Federalists

• Workers

• Trusts

Upton Sinclair

• Elected President in 1860

• Muckraker

• Big Business owner

• Federalist Leader

LABOR UNIONS:

• HELPED IMMIGRANTS LEARN ENGLISH

• FOUGHT FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

• DECREASE DEMOCRACTIC OPPORTUNITY

• AFRICAN AMERICAN RIGHTS