Immigration
Urbanization
Name That Person/Event
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
What are tall buildings, often made from steel and located in major cities in the United States?
Skyscrapers
100
Which American muckraker exposed false claims made by patent medicine companies and revealed that some of their products were actually harmful to people’s health?
Samuel Hopkins Adams
100
These urban, middle-class, educated Americans from both political parties sought to bring social and political change to the United States in the early 1900s. Who were they?
Progressives
100
Which 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, disease, pollution, and political machines were major problems faced by early American ___________.
Cities
200
Who was the well-known leader of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City?
"Boss Tweed" William Tweed
200
These were journalists who wrote about political corruption and social problems?
Muckrakers
200
Which 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 (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
Which amendment gave more power back to the people by allowing for Senators to de directly elected?
17th
300
What right was granted by the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
Voting rights for women (1920)
300
Little Italy, China Town, and Jewish "Lower East Side" are examples of _________________.
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
What term describes the crowded apartment buildings where many immigrants lived during the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Tenements
400
Which tragic event in 1911 led to the deaths of 146 workers, mostly young women, in a New York City clothing factory fire?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
400
Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle exposed the ___________.
The horrific processes practiced by the meat packing industries
400
Subways, elevated trains, and trolleys are known as ___________.
Mass Transportation
500
What is hostility towards immigrants by native born people?
Nativism
500
Jane Addams formed which settlement house in Chicago to help out many poor immigrants in their transition to the United States?
Hull House
500
What was the main goal of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
Require drug companies to list ingredients on labels
500
Reformers pushed for _________________ because they believed that alcohol contributed to problems like domestic abuse, poverty, child abandonment, and crime.
Prohibition
500
In the early 1900s, cities grew quickly, and this rapid growth caused several problems. Identify and describe 2 challenges that cities faced during this time.
1. Housing: overcrowded tenements were unsanitary
2. Sanitation: garbage was often not collected, and polluted air
3. Transportation: Cities struggled to provide adequate transit systems
4. Water: Without safe drinking water cholera and typhoid fever were common
5. Crime: As populations increased thieves flourished
6. Fire: Limited water supply and wooden structures combined with the use of candles led to many major urban fires