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What is the biggest problem for farmers?
Why are political machines bad for democracy?
The bribe and commit voter fraud to win elections
Who did the Hull House provide assistance to?
Immigrants
What groups fought for better working conditions?
Labor Unions
What was the goal of muckrakers?
To expose how corporations were treating workers
Name at least 3 groups that antagonism with each other in West
European Settlers, Native Americans, Chinese, Mexicans, African Americans
Voting Reform that made sure political machines don't know you who voted for
Secret Ballot
Why type of immigrants were welcomed by the U.S. government?
European Immigrants
What strategy did labor unions use to get better working conditions?
Strikes
What is the Progressive Era?
Americans made progress in voting reforms and worker's rights
What did Native American's lose when the Dawes Act was passed?
Their culture, land, etc. Children were forced to go to boarding schools
Voting reform that allows people to directly vote for a candidate without political machines having the ability to change your vote
Direct Primaries
What are immigrants accused of taking?
Jobs
How did the expansion of railroads benefit the cowboys?
They could transport their cattle and make more money
What industry did Upton Sinclair expose in his book Jungle?
Meatpacking
What act caused a lot of conflict out West?
Homestead Act
Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes
What was the government's solution to the immigrant "problem"?
They made laws to prevent and limit the number of immigrants coming to America
Businessman who took advantage of cheap labor provided by immigrants and other groups
Robber Barons
Businessman who had control of the nation's banks
J.P. Morgan
What organization did W.E.B. Dubois start that is still around today?
NAACP
What was the name of the political boss in New York who stole over $100 million dollars?
William Tweed
Tarbell
Why did farmers and industrial workers support the Populist Party?
They wanted more money in circulation (bimetallism), so that everyone had money not just the rich corporations
What event caused public support of labor unions to decline?
Haymarket Riot