Immigration
A general term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is an Immigrant?
The name given to journalist who used their skills to expose the underside of American life.
What is muckraking?
The right to vote..
What is suffrage or the franchise?
a person who makes changes to something in order to improve it.
Who is a Reformer?
This commission ensured that the rates railroads charged farmers and merchants were "reasonable"
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
Conditions that encourage people to move to a country?
What is Pull Factors?
The act that encouraged people to move out west if they agreed to cultivate the land?
What is the Homestead Act?
Law that created a civil service system for the federal government in an attempt to hire employees on a merit system rather than on a spoils system.
What is the Civil Service Act?
This immigration processing station in NYC admitting over 12 million immigrants between 1892-1954?
What is Ellis Island?
This book, whose description of unsanitary production of rotten meat led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act.
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
The migration of some 40,000-60,000 Blacks to Kansas to escape the oppressive environment of the South.
What is the Kansas Exodus?
a person of wealth who gives their money to good causes, (ie. establishes universities, museums, and libraries)
Who is a philanthropists?
Second to Europeans, 1 million immigrants from this ethnic group entered the United States between 1900 and 1930?
What is Mexicans?
The growth of cities due to the influx of people?
What is Urbanization?
The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who tried to undo as much as possible of Reconstruction.
Who are Redeemers?
This amendment led to the direct election of state senators by the people
What is the 17th amendment?
Taking away the right to vote.
What is disenfranchise?