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Henry George

Advocated for the “single tax” on land

Americans first major big business

Railroad industry

J. Pierpont Morgan

Created United States steel corporation

Andrew Carnegie

Promoted the “gospel of wealth”

Herbert Spencer

Supported social Darwinism

Horizontal integration

Combined competing companies

Vertical integration

Controlled all stages of production

Trusts

Centralized control under a board of directors

What increased in the 1800’s

Immigration

Where did the immigrants go

Ethnic neighborhoods centered on churches

Chicago

Gateway to the west

Dumbbell tenements

Created overcrowded and unhealthy living conditions

Political machines

Exchanged services and jobs for votes

Boss tweed

Led Tammany hall

Thomas nast

Exposed corruption through political cartoons

The social gospel

Focused on improving society

Washington gladden

Supported social gospel ideas

Jane Addams

Helped establish settlement houses

Settlement house movement

Contributed to social work

Women were active in what movement

Temperance movement

The jungle

Exposed unsanitary meatpacking conditions

The shame of the cities

Exposed urban corruption

The octopus

Focused on railroad corruption

A red record

Documented lynching statistics

The peoples party

Represented farmers and workers

The populists

We’re the first third party to receive over one million presidential votes

1892

Democrats won both houses of congress

Theodore Roosevelt

Preferred regulating trusts rather than destroying all big businesses

Roosevelt helped panama

Revolt against Colombia to build the Panama Canal

The Roosevelt corollary

Justified intervention in Latin America

The Zimmerman telegram

Encouraged Mexico to attack the United States

The palmer raids

Involved illegal arrests of suspected radicals

Jazz

Became the defining music style of the 1920s

The great crash of 1929

Signaled the beginning of the Great Depression

The national labor relations board

Helped mediate labor disputes

Hiroshima

The first city attacked with atomic weapons

Containment

Aimed to stop the spread of communism

The GI bill

Helped veterans attend college and buy houses

William levitt

Mass- produced suburban homes

Women

Commonly portrayed as domestic homemakers

Eisenhower

Warned against the military-industrial complex

Brown v board of education

Ended school segregation

Woodstock

Symbolized peace, love, and counterculture

Vietnam soldiers

Came from blue color background