Immigration
What was the entry point into the United States for New Immigrants?
What is Ellis Island?
Define Urbanization.
What is growth of cities?
Who invented the assembly line?
Who is Henry Ford?
The organization that tried to unite all of the trade unions to campaign for better pay, hours, and safety for all American workers was the AFL, or
What is American Federation of Labor?
Define Progressive Movement.
What is improving society?
Why did Americans dislike the New Immigrants?
What is they believed they would take their jobs?
What type of housing can be defined as an overcrowded and poorly maintained building?
What is a Tenement?
Many mechanical uses of electricity were made possible through which famous inventor?
Who is Thomas Edison?
Most factories in the United States in the early 1900s were
What is dangerous places to work in?
The ___ Amendment gave women in the United States the right to vote.
What is 19th?
If an immigrant family was in need of housing, jobs, and other essentials, then where would they most likely get help?
Which word defines poor neighborhoods where immigrants lived with members of their ethnic group?
What are Ghettos?
Which Captain of Industry monopolized the Oil Industry?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
What did Muckraker journalists like Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell do?
What is worked to expose the horrible conditions in American factories?
This activist fought for African American rights and co-founded the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Which groups gained power through corrupt practices such as exchanging immigrant votes for jobs?
What are political machines?
What was a reason for people to leave the rural areas in the United States and move to the cities?
What is
-Machines were replacing farm workers.
-Factories were growing in the cities.
-Workers were moving to cities for jobs.
Which event allowed for the movement of natural resources to eastern factories?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire led to what kind of changes?
What is requiring business to have better safety practices. (Ex: fire drills, doors unlocked, sprinklers)
"No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face." ~ Carrie Nation] Which of the Progressive movements was the woman involved in?
What is Temperance Movement?
Which piece of legislation banned Chinese Immigration to the United States for 10 years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This reformer founded Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor.
Whos is Jane Addams?
How did William "Boss" Tweed gain popularity and rise to power?
What is attending to the housing and job needs of immigrants
During the Progressive Era, many Americans worked long hours for low pay in these types of unsafe, crowded factories.
The Keating-Owen Act of 1916 tried to get rid of Child Labor in the United States, but was struck down by the Supreme Court and ended up doing nothing. It wasn’t until the ______________ passed that child labor was effectively eliminated.
What is Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?