New Immigrants
Progressive Reforms
The Political Machine
Women in the Turn of the Century
Wildcard
100
Factors such as famine, religious persecution, and economic hardship in their home countries.
What are some of the push factors for immigration to the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th centuries?
100
An investigative journalist and social reformer whose writings helped spur the passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
Upton Sinclair
100
Informal political groups designed to gain and keep power, which were often accused of corruption during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is a political machine?
100
An early women's rights convention held in 1848 in upstate New York which laid the groundwork for the suffrage movement.
Seneca Falls Convention
100
A term used to describe the idea that, in the U.S., various cultures and ethnicities would blend together to create a new, unified society.
Melting pot
200
The hope for better economic opportunities, religious freedom, and an escape from political unrest.
What are some of the pull factors attracting immigrants to the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th centuries?
200
The regulation of big businesses, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources.
What are three reforms that were part of Roosevelt’s “Square Deal”?
200
The most notorious political machine based in New York City.
Double Down
Tammany Hall
Boss Tweed
200
A social reformer and activist who co-founded the Hull House in Chicago, one of the first settlement houses in the U.S.
Jane Addams
200
Prejudice against foreign-born people
Nativism
300
A 1907 agreement between the U.S. and Japan that limited the migration of Japanese workers to the U.S
What is the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
300
A 1906 law that ensured that meat products were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
300
PHYSICAL CHALLENGE
On White Boards, maximize how much graft you can get from the following event
300
What was the three-part strategy of the Women’s Suffrage movement?
Double Down
State legislature
14th Amendment
Constitutional Amendment
Explain each step?
300
A journalist who exposes corruption in politics or business, often playing a key role in the Progressive era
Muckracker
400
A 19th-century law that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
This early 20th-century movement sought political, social, and economic reforms to address the problems caused by industrialization and urbanization.
What is the Progressive Movement?
400
A term that describes the practice of giving government jobs to supporters and friends as a reward for their assistance, prevalent in the era of political machines.
Double Down
Patronage
Pendleton Civil Service Act
400
This term refers to the late 19th-century campaign led by women to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol.
Temprence Movement
400
This famous ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.
Titantic
500
Why did new immigrants often cluster in ethnic enclaves with in major urban areas?
Double Down:
They sought familiar surroundings, faced language barriers, and wanted to retain their cultural practices.
Double Down: Explain the concept of the Melting Pot vs Salad Bowl
500
These substances had no regulations, even when it came to children's medications
Narcotics
500
Demonstrate this gesture typically associated with politicians trying to win votes during campaigns in the early 20th century.
Handshake
500
The year the 19th Amendment, granting American women the right to vote, was ratified.
500
This American author is best known for his novels "The Great Gatsby" and "Tender is the Night."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
600
A dance originating from the Emerald Isle that new immigrants brought with them to the U.S.
What is the Irish jig?
600
This African American leader and founder of the NAACP believed in racial equality.
WEB Du Bois
600
The major infrastructure project in New York, completed in 1917, that was influenced heavily by political machine politics and involved multiple contracts and kickbacks.
BONUS
The subway system
What was one of the most expensive infrastructure projects in our countries history rife with corruption in this state?
600
The organization founded by Margaret Sanger in the early 20th century that played a pivotal role in the fight for women's reproductive rights.
Planned Parenthood
600
PHYSICAL CHALLANGE
You will be manufacturing a sweater, one of you is responisble for each phase of production. Need 5 people, one is buttons, one is chest, one is arms, one for details, one for inspection.
Most Sweaters and most uniform wins points