Vocabulary
Define the word corrupt
dishonest
This man photographed child labor in NC textile mills.
Lewis Hine
What raw material did textile mills use to make clothing?
Cotton
What did workers in factories and mills demand when they went on strikes?
shorter work hours, better pay, and safer conditions.
America's nickname during the age of immigration.
The Great Melting Pot
What does suffrage mean?
The right to vote.
Where did the Gilded Age get its name?
From a novel by Mark Twain entitled The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
The industry that Upton Sinclair was exposing.
Food and/or meat packing industry
The east coast immigration station.
Ellis Island
the 19th amendment
This man wrote The Jungle with the intention of exposing a certain industry.
Upton Sinclair
The Biltmore Estate
This organization was trying to pass women’s suffrage at a state wide level.
AWSA American Woman Suffrage Association
It symbolizes that light (or enlightenment) is the key to achieving freedom.
Which vocabulary means the following: A person who exposed corruption in factories in the Gilded Age.
muckraker
This political machine boss was the leader of the Tammany Hall Ring in NYC and scammed taxpayers out of a lot of money.
William "Boss" Tweed
During the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, Alexander Manly's business was burnt down, what did it sell?
Newspapers
What happened to the Tammany Hall Ring?
It was broken and the members thrown into jail.
Who were nativists afraid of?
Immigrants
Ethnic Enclave
This suffragette was known for founding the National Women's Party.
What was created by the combined investments of Ernest Snow, John Tate, and Thomas Wrenn in 1889?
The Highpoint Furniture Company
What were tactics employed by suffragettes to get their point across to lawmakers and society?
Hunger strikes, parades, protests, and picketing in public places.
The majority of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory workers were what age, gender?
Females from ages 20-24.