Progressive Era Review Sheet
Vocabulary Words:
Transcontinental Railroad Laissez Faire
Corporation
Trust
Monopoly
Urbanization
Muckrakers
Nativity
Tariffs Robber Baron
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Margaret Sanger
Concepts:
Benefits of Transcontinental Railroad. How did it help America? What did it do to improve America’s economy?
What was the impact of Rockefeller and
Carnegie on America and the growth of big business.
Trusts and Monopolies and why they were bad for American consumers in the long run?
Why tariffs were beneficial to American
Industrial Growth?
Importance of Edison’s inventions
Urbanization and how it impacted America
(Positives and Negatives of Urbanization)
Advantages/Disadvantages of
Industrialization
How did Muckrackers help change America for the better?
Government Actions:
Laissez Faire Economics
Sherman Anti Trust Act
17 th Amendment
Why would Government want to regulate businesses?

1. Who were the robber barons?
2. How did laissez-faire capitalism promote the growth of big business?
3. Identify the industries dominated by the following individuals: a. Andrew Carnegie b. J.D. Rockefeller c. J.P. Morgan d. Cornelius Vanderbilt
4. What is a trust and how does it become a monopoly?
5. Why was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act adopted in 1890?
6. During the 1880s and 1890s, immigrants to American came primarily from what regions in Europe?
7. What was life like for the new immigrants after they reached America?
8. What was a political machine and how did it benefit immigrants? a. Which was the most notorious of the political machines and who was its “boss”?
9. Why were Americans fearful of the new immigrants coming into America and how did they especially deal with the Chinese immigrants?
10. During the late nineteenth century, how did cities in America change?
11. How could a settlement house help the problems faced by Americans in the big cities?
12. Who was Jane Addams?
13. Why was the late nineteenth century referred to as the Gilded Age?
14. How did Boss Tweed and his ring control the city government of New York?
15. How did the telephone, telegraph, and typewriter aid industrialization in America?
16. How did steel provide the building block for industrialization?
17. What category of people made up the new working class by 1900?
18. What were the three major problems facing laborers during this time period?
19. Identify the following terms as they related to labor movement. a. American Federation of Labor b. Haymarket Square Riot c. Collective bargaining d. Pullman Strike e. Yellow dog contracts f. Lock-outs g. Sweatshop