unit 2 test ush

jacob riis

-jounrnalism reformer

-wrote how the ohter half lives

-muckcracker/ progressive 

tammary hall

democractic political machine that dominated new york city politics le by the boss tweed

ida tarbell

wrote the hisotry of the standard oil company

• critical of standard oil

  • progressive - person advocates or implements social reform or new liberal ideas

john mur 

-fought for natioanl port system 

-founded the sierra club (protect natural lands)

alice paul 

• joined the miltant womens movement

  • arrested 3 times and participate in hunger strikes 

  • fought for womens right to vote

    • foguht for equal rights movement

19th amendement

womens suffrage 

william dv bois

-soiciologists- one of th early leaders of the national association for the advancement of colored people- formed to help protect the rights of f black americans

theodore roosecelt

elected vice pres. 1900 president 1901, republican,after mckinley was assasinated

• speka softly but carry a big stick

  • set aside land for national parks

    • regulation of big businesses

Federal trade comission act of 1914

prevents companies from becominf monoplies and breaking laws protecting small businesses

robert la folette 

forumlated the wisconsin idea

winconis idea by robert la folette

1. polical party elections should be accomplsihed by firest voter companies

2. property owned by big businesses should be taxed at the same rate propert owned by individuals

   1. regulate railroad rates

17th amendment

allos for the direct election of us senators by the voters 

john d rockfeller

oil industry, owned standard oil, eliminated competition, 

thomas eddison

• invented lightbulbs, movie camera, photograph, over 100 patents

  • developed the electirc chair to demonstrate how lethal alternating currest were

alexander g bell

-invented the telephone 1890

-one million miles of wire by 1900 

nisola tesla

-invented the electir dynao allowing production of cheap production of electricity 

wilbur and orville wright

ivented the airplane- first flight in 1903

gustavas swift

• develpoed the referidgerated railcar- changed the way people eat

christopher shoes

-set up layout of keys on the typewriter\

-qwerty sped up typing and sped up business

henrid hertz

• discovered radio waves, conducted experiemetns leading to radio and x rays

george eastmen

designed first camera available to public plastic roll film

Andre carnagie

Trust- steel company

• sold it to jp morgan whi merged it with us stee

• Funded thousands to libraries universities and ither insitutons

Corneliud vanderbilt

• railroad and steamship lines

• Mid 19th centruy he controlled the vast railroad network

Gilded age

1870s to 1890s

• rapid economic and captial growth in the north and west

• Significant poverty

• Growing inequality due to immigrants

• Big gap between rich industrialists the robber barins and the poor workers leading to unions and strikes

• Big companies dominsting markets and monopolizing

Jp morgan

• american finacer during gilded era

• 19th and 20tn centruies

• Reorganzrf major american undustries like the us steel

Chinese exclusoons 1882

restricted immgirsntioj of chinese

Sherman antitrust act 1890

regusktrd monopolies and trusts

Hepburn act 1906 and Elkins act 1903

-hepfurnn set max of railroad rates

• elkins prohibited railroads from offerejng decret offers to large shippers