CPUSH Unit 2 review

For test on Wednesday!!

Gilded age

period of rapid economic growth, industrialization, and materialism- “glittery on the surface but corrupt underneath”

Monopoly

One business has complete control over an industry

Mark Twian

Coined the term “Gilded age”

Robber Barrons

Business leaders who became rich by stealing from their poor workers, accused of bribing politicians

Captains of industry

Serve the nation positively, create jobs, buy food, and increase the living standard

Cartel

Multiple businesses scheme to monopolize/ control an industry, keep prices high

Social Darwinism

idea that rich are rich because they’re the “fittest”, poor are poor because they aren’t

Laissez- Faire

an philosophy advocating for minimal government interference in the free market

Child Labor

employment of children in jobs, that are unsafe, exploitative, and harmful to their development

Progressivism

Movement of reform to better society using research and government policies

6 major goals of progressivism

business regulation, worker and child protection, social welfare, urban immorality, women’s rights, and racial relations

Social Welfare

improving quality of life for the poor living in slums

Booker T. Washington

promoted vocational skills among African americans, pushed accomodation (slower approach)

Tuskegee institute

Founded by Booker T. Washington, university in Alabama

Accomodation

Work hard, prove value, and racism fades

WEB Du Bois

founded NCAAP, and niagara movement (quicker, more confrontational approach)

Niagara Movement

Civil rights organization founded in 1905

NCAAP

Organization that pushed for immediate and full civil rights for blacks

Sufferage

fighting for the legal right to vote in public political elections

16th Amendment

national income tax

17th amendment

Direct election of senators

18th amendment

Prohibition of alcohol

19th Amendment

Voting rights for women

Feminism

ideology that establishes equality for women

Anti- Suffragists

a person who actively opposes giving women the right to vote

Alice Paul

suffragette, founded national woman’s party

National Woman’s Party (NWP)

First group to picket the white house- more confrontational approach

Silent Sentinels

the name the NWP gave themselves after picketing the whitehouse

Carrie Chapman Catt

Leader of women’s suffrage

National American Women’s suffrage Association (NAWSA)

movement that pushed suffrage through quieter lobbying

Ida B. Wells

journalist who exposed lynching and racial injustice, argued for both race and gender

Gilded

Covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint

prime example of a robber baron

John D. Rockefeller

prime example of a captain of industry

Andrew Carnegie

evidence supporting the Robber Baron’s view

Monopolies, low wages, child labor

Evidence supporting the Captains of industry view

economic growth, lower prices, raised living standards

why the gov. passed laws against monopolies

corporations had an unfair advantage, and they wanted to restore free market competition

Catt’s 3 reasons for why suffrage was inevitable

The country’s history of revolution, suffrage for the US makes suffrage for the nation inevitable, leadership of democracy in US calls for enfranchisement of women