Theodore Roosevelt
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Who is the 26th President of the United States?
The Gilded Age saw a huge boom in what 3 industries?
What are the steel, oil, and transportation industries?
This reform banned the sale and production of alcohol in the United States from 1920-1933. (Hint: it isn't the Prohibition Act)
The Temperance Act
Most of the Immigrant population who came to America went through this processing station
What is Ellis Island?
This reformer was the first woman to publicly fight for women's right and suffrage
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Roosevelt showed his military might by what event during the Progressive Era?
What is the Great White Fleet?
Comparatively how much quicker did the United States industrialize than Britain?
What is about half the time?
What is the 19th Amendment
This invention can be largely responsible for bringing over millions of immigrants to the United States
What is the steam engine?
This type of reformer would investigate and publish their findings about the conditions that people were in during the Progressive Era.
Who are Muckrackers?
Roosevelt created this act which saved land across the United States from being torn down and repurposed.
What is the National Reclamation Act?
There were two notable strikes during the Gilded Age that turned violent. What were they called?
What are the Pullman and Homestead Strikes
The Sherman Antitrust Act did not help these people
Who are the monopolists?
Immigrants encountered this when coming to the United States
What is racism or nativism?
This monopolist was responsible for building up the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Theodore Roosevelt was known for the reforms he enacted. What was the reform that he enacted that directly affected a business in Chicago?
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
people were hired to fill in for workers who were on strike, what were they called?
What are strikebreakers?
Unions gave support for workers by doing this
What is negotiate better working conditions and wage increases?
Jane Addams founded this location to help newly arriving immigrants by warning them of discrimination, offering them childcare, and offering them education opportunities.
What is the Hull House?
This reformer founded planned parenthood, birth control, and became an outright spokesperson for women's reproductive rights
Who is Margaret Sanger?
Theodore Roosevelt became President because of what?
What is the assassination of William Mckinley?
What was the detective agency that was hired during the Homestead strike that caused things to turn violent?
What is the Pinkerton Detective Agency?
Samuel Gompers created what union?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
This immigration act prevented ship captains from overcrowding their ships with people
What is the Steerage Act?
This muckraker took photos of the New York Tenements which showed how the people of New York were living in terrible conditions.
Who is Jacob Riis?