Immigration
This immigration center was the primary arrival point for Asian immigrants on the West Coast. The conditions were harsher here than at the East Coast immigration center.
Illegal use of political influence for personal gain.
Created in 1909, a civil rights organization that works to ensure the rights of African Americans and other minorities in the United States.
NAACP
A reformer who, through his pictures, hoped for change
Jacob Riis
Who was the President during the Progressive Era?
Theodore (teddy) Roosevelt
Immigrants who intended to stay only temporarily to earn money and then return to their homeland.
Birds of Passage
An organized group that controls the activities of a political party in a city.
The Political Machine
Born enslaved, graduated from the Virginia Hampton Institute, and founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
Booker T Washington
Preached salvation through service to the poor.
The Social Gospel Movement
Prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours
Illinois factory act of 1893
Barred Chinese immigration for 10 years, and prevented Chinese who were already in the state from becoming citizens.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
NYC’s powerful Democratic political machine, a group of corrupt politicians, defrauded the city from 1869-1871.
Tammany Hall
Which 3 legal voting restrictions were put in place to restrict African Americans from voting?
2. Poll Tax
3. Grandfather Clause
These homes provided a place to stay, classes, health care, and other social services for the needy.
Settlement Homes
Banned the sale of contaminated food and required truthful packaging
Pure Food and Drug Act
Nativists held fears that immigrants would... (3 acceptable answers)
1. Bring diseases
2. Only obey the Pope and ignore American Leaders
3. Undermine the Labor Union
Often first- or second-generation immigrants, they helped immigrants with naturalization, jobs, and housing in exchange for votes.
Precinct captains and Ward Bosses
The ruling in the Supreme Court case Plessy V Ferguson.
Founder of the Hull House in Chicago
Jane Adams
Studies to see how quickly a task could be performed
Scientific Management
Most immigrants in the second wave of immigration came from where?
Southern and Eastern Europe
Giving jobs and favors to those who helped a candidate get elected.
Led women's suffrage- the right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony
'Author of the book "The Jungle" (1906), exposing the horrid conditions of the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
Meant to promote moral improvement, this banned alcohol from 1920 to 1933.
Prohibition