Immigration/Living Conditions
To escape poverty, war and violence
For jobs, freedom and a better life
What is a Muckraker?
An individual who investigates and reports about corruption about different areas in society.
What is suffrage?
The right to vote in a public election
Which president was known as the trustbuster?
Roosevelt
What is discrimination?
The act of treating someone differently or unjustly based upon some characteristic
What was entering the US like for immigrants at Ellis Island and Angel Island?
Waited in boarding houses and received interviews and examinations
They had to go through a series of health tests and evaluations and could possibly be sent back to their homeland if they did not meet proper guidelines..
Two-week journey
Who exposed individuals like William Tweed and other political machines by creating political cartoons about the corruption in city government?
Thomas Nast
Who were the two leaders at the beginning of the Women's Right Movement?
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
President Taft was a larger supporter of the 16th amendment. What did that amendment state?
A national income tax with the idea that those who made more would pay a higher rate than those who made less
How did Americans want the country to look in the 1900s?
White and Protestant
What is a tenement?
A type of residence that is often run-down and crowded
Set up the Civil Service Commission to give test for federal jobs and ended the spoils system.
Pendleton Act
What issues were women fighting for during the Progressive Era?
Voting rights, End of Child Labor, Stopping the selling and production of alcohol, improving working conditions and forming labor unions for women
This set of goals made by Roosevelt of conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection was called what?
The Square Deal
Why did Americans want to restrict the number of Asian immigrants in the US?
Americans claimed that Asian immigrants worked for low wages and took away jobs
What were the conditions like in tenements?
Immigrants lived in these tenements and had to share it with other families.
Many landlords lacked interest in maintenance or improvements
Apartments contained just three rooms; a windowless bedroom, a kitchen and a front room with windows
This amendment stated that the people would be able to directly elect the senators of their state.
17th Amendment
Which amendment in 1920, allowed women the right to vote in the United States?
19th Amendment
He planned a "New Freedom" from trusts, tariffs, and high finance when he became president in 1912.
Woodrow Wilson
How were African-American treated during the progressive era?
Were denied basic rights, treated as second class citizens, faced violence and lynching from the KKK, faced segregation because of Plessy v. Ferguson
Which muckraker took photographs and documented what life was like for poor citizens living in tenements?
Jacob Riis
How did the Sherman Antitrust Act and Interstate Commerce Act regulate business?
Sherman Antitrust Act- Forced monopolies to break away up to allow fair competition
Interstate Commerce Act- Regulated shipping rates of railroads and eliminated their practices of rebates
What were the beliefs of anti-suffragists in the United States?
Women were high-strung, irrational, and emotional
Women were not smart or educated enough
Women should stay at home
Women were too physically frail; they would get tired just walking to the polling station
Women would become masculine if they voted
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created by Wilson was to...
Control the nation’s money supply
How were Booker T. Washington and WEB DuBois similar and different from each other?
Similar: Wanted to see African-Americans successful and gain an education
Different:
Washington- African American achieve economic goals rather than political ones. Could achieve equality by demonstrating economic value.
DuBois-Saw no advantage on giving up on civil rights and wanted to protect the right to vote. African Americans needed to educate themselves