Immigration
Urbanization
Name That Person
Progressive Movement
Mr. Pellerite's Mix
100
What is ONE reason that immigrants came to the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s
1. Escape social structure in Europe
2. Religious Freedom
3. Work
4. Escape tyrannical governments
100
These are tall buildings often made from steel and located in major cities in the United States?
Skyscrapers
100
He was an American Muckraker that exposed many of the false claims made about patent medicines, pointing out that in some cases these medicines were damaging the health of the people using them?
Samuel Hopkins Adams
100
These were urban, middle class, educated Americans from both political parties who were looking to make social and political changes in the United States in the early 1920s?
Progressives
100
This court case in Louisiana was the doctrine case for "separate but equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
200
Many immigrants passed through this service station on their way to the United States?
Ellis Island
200
Crime, diseases, pollution, and political machines were all problems that Early American _________ faced?
Cities
200
Author of the "Gospel of Wealth", who talked about the wealthy having the responsibility to give back "philanthropy" to those less fortunate?
Andrew Carnegie
200
These were journalists who wrote about political corruption and social problems?
Muckrakers
200
This amendment banned the manufacturing, transportation, an sale of alcoholic beverages?
18th amendment
300
Which immigrant group came to the United States to work on the PACIFIC Railroads?
Asian or Chinese immigrants
300
Who was best known for exposing the horrible living conditions of working class immigrants in large cities and tenement housing through the use of photography "How the Other Half Lives"?
Jacob Riis
300
Was one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
1. Alice Paul
2. Rose Winslow
300
The 19th amendment allowed this?
Women the right to vote
300
Little Italy, China Town, and Jewish "Lower East Side" are examples of these?
Ethnic neighborhoods
400
Name ONE example of a PUSH factor that lead immigrants to the United States?
1. Economic issues and diseases
2. Farm poverty and worker uncertainty
3. Wars and forced military service
4. Tyrannical rulers
5. Religious oppression
400
This is the acquisition of money in dishonest ways, such as bribing a politician?
Graft
400
He encouraged African Americans to concentrate on achieving ECONOMIC, rather than political goals
Booker T. Washington
400
Upton Sinclair's book, "The Jungle" exposed this?
The horrific processes practiced by the meat packing industries
400
Subways, Elevated Trains, and trolleys are known as forms of?
Mass Transportation
500
What is hostility towards immigrants by native born people?
Nativism
500
Jane Addams formed this settlement house in Chicago to help out many poor immigrants in their transition to the United States?
Hull House
500
She was responsible for informing many of the mob violence and lynching's that were occurring in the South?
Ida B. Wells
500
He was an avid supporter of environmental conservation during his time as President of the United States?
Theodore Roosevelt
500
These were State laws in the South that legalized segregation following the American Civil War.
Jim Crow Laws