Unit 6 Progressive Era

This theory was used to justify why the poor stayed poor and to rationalize imperialism

• Gospel of Wealth

• Social Darwinism

• Social Gospel

• Laissez Faire

An act of joining or consolidating with one’s competitors to create a monopoly.

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

True or False: The Knights of Labor admitted only highly trained workers in the union.

• True

• False

He was associated with steamships before becoming a titan of the railroad industry.

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller

The term "The Gilded Age" originated from this author...

• William Shakespeare

• Mark Twain

• Jack London

• Ernest Hemingway

All the following are true of W.E.B. DuBois EXCEPT:

• He created the Atlanta Compromise

• He helped found the NAACP

• He wanted immediate Civil Rights progress

• he believed in the Talented Tenth

This depicts what problem in the Government?

• the role of corporate interests in Congress

• the struggles of labor unions

• the rising national debt

• the power of liberals

Populism drew its support primarily from...

• western farmers.

• labor unions.

• factory workers.

• businessmen.

True or False: Samuel Gompers was the president of the American Federation of Labor.

• True

• False

All the following are true of railroads in the 19th century EXCEPT:

• they were owned primarily by the government

• they were funded by government land grants

• a transcontinental railroad sped up western settlement

• time zones were created due to the railroad