Gilded Age, Progressivism, & muckrackers

By enqil0009
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    Old Immigration

    Germans, Scandinavians, Irish, Scots and English

  • Thomas Nast

    Boss tweed cartoonist
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    Gilded age

  • Light bulb Edison

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    New Immigration

    Southern and Eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, Russia, Austria-Hungary, etc)
    China and Japan
    Jewish

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Haymarket riot

  • Sherman Antitrust act

    Made it illegal to form a trust and monopolization
    Not well enforced but set a legal foundation for later antitrust actions especially against Standard Oil in 1911.

  • Settlement houses

  • Jacob Riis

    Photography and journalism to reveal the awful living conditions of the urban poor in NYC

  • Homestead Strike

    major industrial labor strike at the Carnegie Steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
    one of the most violent labor conflict

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Ida Tarbell

    Exposed Rockefeller's monopolistic practices, which contributed to the breakup of Standard Oil

  • The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair
    Led to the Meat Inspection Act Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Progressive Party

    Established after Theodore Roosevelt lost against William Howard Taft
    Bull Moose Party