Unit 1: The Second Industrial Revolution

Gilded Age

Covered up to make it look good from the outside, but not from the inside.

Industrialism

building industries and factories

urbanization

building homes and towns and making big cities

Immigration

moving from one country to another country

Socialism

Resources are available and shared for all people

Laissez Faire

Hands off for businesses and goverment ignored social effects

Social darwinism

Survival of the Fittest

Monopoly and trust

owning all of the competition and eliminating competition

Communism

all land and money is owned to benefit all in society

Labor Unions

Negotiate for better worker’s rights

Anarchism

People should rule out government and ruled by force

Nativism

segregation of immigrants and protecting native born

jim crow laws

laws after slavery prohibiting rights on African Americans

Suffrage

women’s voting

Progressivism

Making progress on issues

Muckrakers

raking through the mud

16th amendment

gradual taxes

17th amendment

democracy, vote for senators

18th amendment

probhition

19th amendment

suffrage

proletariat

people without land

Ida Tarbell

muckraker - focused on taxes from foreign countries

Jacob Riis

Published How the Other half Lives. New york city slums

Triangle shirt factory fire

Fire in a company of women, many dead

democracy

the say in government

Chinese exclusion act

excluded Chinese from immigration into u.s.

Jane Addams

settlement houses for women and immigrants and suffragette

Lincoln Steffens

Muckraker and exposed corruption

Upton Sinclair

Muckraker and exposed meat packing industry

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

woman’s rights and suffrage movement

Capitalism

Private individuals buy and sell land and capital to maximize private wealth

What is NAWSA

National American Woman Suffrage association

Booker T. Washington

Practical approach, black people should accept segregation and make the most out of their situation

W.E.B. DuBois

Protest approach, black people should not accept segregation

Ida B. Wells

Wrote about lynchings