Reformers
Wrote a book called the Jungle about unsanitary conditions in slaughter houses.
Upton Sinclair
Reformers who attempted to solve problems caused by corruption, growth of industry, and laissez-faire.
Progressives
Primarily female reformers were successful in banning alcohol with this amendment.
18th Amendment
Name of the movement to give women the vote?
Suffrage
What was the biggest complaint that farmers had during this era?
Railroad rates
The term for when approximately 6 million African Americans migrated to the North, Midwest, and West.
The Great Migration
Term for a factor that makes someone want to leave their home country?
Push Factor
Wrote newspaper articles about lynching's that were occurring in the South.
Ida B. Wells
Term for Journalists that were exposing the corruption of big business and government
Muckrakers
Amendment that ended prohibition.
21st
Name of the movement to stop alcohol consumption in the U.S.
Temperance
Famous writer and poet from the Harlem renaissance that wrote the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Langston Hughes
The period in New York that was considered a golden age in African American culture, in literature, music, stage performance, and art.
Harlem renaissance
Immigrants left Ireland to come to America's Northeastern cities because of what?
The potato Famine in Ireland
Exposed Standard Oil's monopoly and business practices.
Ida Tarbell
The name of the party created by the anti-immigrant nativists.
The Know Nothing party
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
19th
Term for when factory owners want minimum government involvement.
Laissez Faire
Gangs in New York often gathered at these locations to socialize and plan.
Fire Houses
Term for inexpensive housing in low income urban areas that may have multiple families living close together in unsanitary conditions.
Tenements
This act was created to stop Chinese form immigrating to the U.S.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Wrote "How the Other Half Lives."
Jacob Riis
A group of farmers banned together to complain about railroad rates and created an organization called the?
The Grange
This act was created after the assassination of James Garfield.
Pendleton Act
People that were opposed to new immigration were called?
Nativists
Name either person that was running for president in 1896, an election that was about the gold verses silver standard?
William Jennings Bryan(D) verses William McKinley(R)
African Americans that moved West were called?
Exodusters
Location on the West Coast where most Chinese immigrants were processed before entering the U.S.?
Angel Island
The "mother of social work."
Jane Addams
The most famous Irish "Political Machine" in New York was called?
Tammany hall or Tweed Ring
Senator from Wisconsin that wanted to use college academics to make business more efficient.
Robert La Follette
System introduced during this time that was intended to make factories more efficient. It's named after its creator.
Taylorism
Williams Jennings Bryan wrote this famous speech during the election of 1896?
The Gold Cross
Terrible fire in New York City that killed 146 sweat shop workers.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Most Irish immigrated to large port cities in the Northeast, what region did most Germans immigrate to?
Midwest/ Great Lakes
Created a system to improve factory efficiency.
Frederick Taylor
Settlement houses and churches served the community and organizations like the YMCA and the _________ _______ took on service roles.
Salvation Army
Because of the progressive movement laws were passed that limited workdays to how many hours?
10 hours
The partnership between government and the experts at the University of Wisconsin was called?
The Wisconsin Idea
Name of the women's organization that led the fight to outlaw alcohol.
Women's Christian Temperance Movement
The most famous Irish political Machine boss in New York?
Boss Tweed
Location on the East Coast where most European immigrants were processed before entering the U.S.?
Ellis Island