Vocabulary
Supply & Demand
Industrialization & Urbanization
Immigration
Progressive Amendments
Prohibition
100
This is something in a new country that attracts new immigrants. This is what drew in Chinese immigrants during the 1850s Gold Rush.
What is a pull factor?
100
This is the positive relationship between price and quantity, where, as price goes up, quantity also goes up.
What is the law of supply?
100
This is the process where a country moves from using individual, artisan craftsmanship to mass producing goods in factories. In history, this shift mainly occurred in the early 1700s.
What is Industrialization?
100
This is a term used to describe when a person moves from one country to another. Usually, people do this for work or to escape persecution.
What is Immigration?
100
This Progressive Era amendment was passing in 1933, repealing or reversing an amendment previously passed in 1919.
What is the 21st Amendment?
100
This movement led the Prohibition Era, creating a widespread outcry against the consumption of alcohol primarily due to religion. Eventually, the movement became mostly women.
What is the Temperance Movement?
200
This is something that causes someone to leave the country they currently live in. This is what pushed the Jewish population out of Russia in the 1880s.
What is a push factor?
200
This is the correct name of this curve.
What is a surplus curve?
200
This was one of the biggest issues with the Industrial Revolution. Because families needed more money, younger members had to go to work and experience the issues within factories.
What is child labor?
200
This law, passed in 1882, was the first time in U.S. history where the federal government forbade an ethnic group of laborers, claiming they endangered public safety and order.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
This Progressive Amendment created the federal income tax. When it passed in 1913, it created a 1% tax for only 1% of people.
What is the 16th Amendment?
200
This was the nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol in the 1920s. It was started by the 18th Amendment and repealed in the 21st Amendment in 1933.
What is Prohibition?
300
This is an economic term to describe the cost savings when products are able to be produced more efficiently in larger quantities.
What is an economy of scale?
300
This is the negative relationship between price and quantity, where, as price goes up, quantity goes down and vice versa.
What is the law of demand?
300
This is a term used to describe the trend in the 1700s where people moved from rural areas and farm work into cities and industrial jobs.
What is Urbanization?
300
This is one of many ways U.S. based groups tried to restrict immigration to the U.S. This specific method required adults to be able to read a minimum of 40 words in any language to stay in the U.S.
What is a literacy test?
300
This Progressive Era amendment banned the sale and manufacture of liquor in the U.S. It was led by the Women's Christian Temperance Union to combat alcohol consumption and its effects like domestic violence and public intoxication. This amendment passed in 1919.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
This was the name for the people who made, transported and sold illegal alcohol. The name came from the practice of hiding bottles of alcohol in the tops of boots to avoid detection.
What is a bootlegger?
400
This was what the U.S. shifted to due to industrialization. This is where competition between sellers is what drives the economy.
What is a market economy?
400
This is the name of this curve.
What is a shortage curve?
400
This word best describes the structure of a company, where a leader or CEO is on top, with a vice president and department heads under them, then middle managers, and finally the workers who actually do the production.
What is a bureaucracy?
400
These are the two islands' immigrants could arrive to in the 1800s. These islands would be where immigrants received health exams or interrogations on why they are entering the U.S.
What were Ellis and Angel Islands?
400
This Progressive Era amendment made women's suffrage legal federally. Suffrage became a large focus point during the Progressive Amendment, with some states passing suffrage before the federal government did. This amendment passed in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
This was the name of a notorious Chicago gangster from the 1920s. He was known for running speakeasies and bootlegging alcohol to 10,000 speakeasies in the area. He got away with it by bribing officials.
Who was Al Capone?
500
This is a process used in manufacturing to ensure there is no interruption in work. This method allowed workers to be organized and allowed products to flow more easily between steps.
What is the assembly line?
500
These are the two acronyms we used to remember the determinants of supply and demand.
What is ROTTEN and TRIBE?
500
This was an organization established in 1909 to protect the rights of African Americans in the Industrial and Progressive Era. This organization primarily focused on defending African Americans who were wrongfully accused of crimes.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
500
This act was passed in 1906 creating the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. It created a procedure for immigrants to naturalize into the U.S., including having a judge investigate and having immigrants state an Oath of Allegiance.
What is the Naturalization Act of 1906?
500
This Progressive Era amendment made it so Senators were elected directly by the people of their state. The amendment changed the wording of Article I, Section 3, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution.
What is the 17th Amendment?
500
This is the name for bars and clubs that had to hide during the Prohibition. People needed to know passwords in order to enter. These locations became hot spots for the party culture of the Roaring Twenties.
What is a speakeasy?