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The processing center where the early 1900's immigrants would come in, be checked, and if accepted sent to their new city.
Ellis Island, New York
The rigged tests that African Americans had to take to be able to vote.
Literacy test
The push to ban alcohol in the United States.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Owned a steel company that revolutionized steel production in the United States.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
A business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributes positively to the country in some way.
What is captian of industry?
Oil monopoly created by John D. Rockefeller during the Gilded Age.
What is the Standard Oil Trust Company?
A voting fee
What is a poll tax?
General Motors workers became part of what has been called one of the most significant strikes in American labor history. These workers were fighting for recognition of their union, the United Auto Workers, and to keep their jobs from going to non-union workers.
What is the Flint Sit-Down Strike?
He is remembered for shedding light on the corruption of governments in the American cities.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
Derogatory term used for some powerful nineteenth-century American businessmen.
What is a robber barron?
The term used when people start moving to urban areas from rural areas
What is urbanization?
Laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Jim Crow Laws
the Carnegie Steel Company workers, organized in a union known as the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Amalgamated Association was one of the biggest and most efficient unions in the country, consisting mostly of strong Americans, men of decision andgrit, who stood up for their rights.
What is the Homestead Strike?
American financier, banker, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.
Who is JP Morgan?
A legal contract between at least two parties
What is a trust?
Political party started by Teddy Roosevelt for the 1912 election.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
Regulatory agency for food and drugs.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
A nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroad companies that occurred in the United States in 1894. The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois on May 11 when approximately 3,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west ofChicago to a halt.
What is the Pullman Strike?
He contributed heavily to the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The railroad built to connect the East and West coasts that resulted in increased trade in the USA.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Federal agency created to protect consumers and end monopolies.
What is the Federal Trade Commission.
The act to break up monopolistic business combinations.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The strike that started on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the second time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O).
What is the Great Railroad Strike?
A leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-1800s. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies.
What is socialism?