Immigration
Another name for apartment-style buildings
Tenements
Entry point for immigrants arriving from Europe who crossed the Atlantic Ocean
Ellis Island
The Progressive Movement was pushed by people in which social class? (lower, middle, upper...)
Middle class
When companies interfere with or try to weaken labor organizations
union busting
What was the origin of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
A cigarette
From the 1800s to the 1900s, the US transformed from an _____ society to and ______ one
Agrarian, Industrial
Group of authors who wrote about the corruption they saw in American cities
Muckrakers
Henry Ford's notable innovation for building things in factories
The Irish were discriminated against because of _____.
Their Catholic religion
These 2 immigrant groups were instrumental to building the Transcontinental Railroad
Irish and Chinese
Which movement within the Progressive era led the push to ban alcohol?
Temperance Movement
Name of the largest oil company of the early 1900s
Standard Oil
Entry point for immigrants arriving from Asia who crossed the Pacific Ocean
Angel Island
Major cities were built along ___________
Railroad lines
Pseudo-science (fake science) that attempted to improve human genes by controlling who can and can't reproduce
Eugenics
Site of the first Women's Rights Convention in New York in 1848
Seneca Falls
Law that offered up to 160 acres of land to people who agreed to move Westward
Homestead Act
WASP stands for (4 letters)
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
Law that gave the government power to breakup corporations that became too big
Sherman Antitrust Act
Progressives rejected ____________ in favor of _________
Individualism, collectivism