Study Guide
Industrialization and Progressivism
1. Which Robber Barron was most directly associated with the steel industry?
2. What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson?
3. Because of industry, where did people move to during the Gilded Age?
4. What is a muckraker and why are they important?
5. Immigrants in the late 19th century would most likely have been employed in what type of job?
6. What was the progressive movement?
7. How did immigrants contribute to the growth of cities, industry and labor unions?
8. Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe was ENCOURAGED/DISCOURAGED (circle one)
9. What was Henry Bessemer, “a giant of innovation” known for? What did it create?
10. What were the goals of the Progressive Movement?
11. How did the Jim Crow Laws in the South affect African Americans in the late 19th century and early 20th century?
12. Who invented to incandescent light bulb and why was it important?
13. Describe laissez-faire capitalism.
14. What happened to labor union membership as strikes turned violent?
15. How did Booker T. Washington encourage African Americans to respond to segregation/discrimination? What
did he help found?
16. What negative nickname was given to men like Carnegie and Rockefeller?
17. How did Alexander G. Bell revolutionize business?
18. Which Captain of Industry was associated with the Railroads?
19. What did the Wright Brothers do?
20. How was Henry Ford able to reduce the price of automobiles?
21. Ida B. Wells spoke out against _________________
22. Who founded and ran the Standard Oil Company?
23. Why did workers join labor unions?
24. Which strike was forcibly ended when President Grover Cleveland intervened with the US Army?
25. Which labor union was open only to “skilled” workers?
26. Which union was founded by socialist Eugene V. Debs?
27. How did the pattern of immigration change after 1890?
28. Where did European immigrants arrive in the US? Where did Asian immigrants arrive?
29. What did the Homestead Act offer to settlers?
30. What did Cyrus McCormick invent?
31. What organization did W.E.B. Du Bois help found?
32. Which early civil rights leader believed the path the equality was through vocational education and economic
success?
33. What was the primary goal of the NAACP?
34. What elect reforms were made during the Progressive era?
35. What did the 19th Amendment do?
36. Which amendment called for the direct election of Senators?
37. What was the goal in passing the 18th Amendment?
38. Who promised a “Square Deal” to common people?
39. What was the purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
40. Which captain of industry was associated with the oil industry?
41. Historical Significance:
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ellis Island
Muckrakers
19th Amendment