Immigration
A reason someone leaves their home to live in another place.
What is a push factor?
The growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
This person controlled the city and its municipal workers.
What is a City Boss?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
This political cartoonist helped to expose the corrupt practices of Tammany the political machine.
Who is Thomas Nast?
Each of these people had to have money and prove they were able to work to get into the United States.
What is an immigrant?
This city developed the most during the late 1800s.
What is Chicago?
An organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in a city.
What is a political machine?
The 18th Amendment was a response to this reform movement.
What is the temperance movement?
This person exposed the living conditions in NYC through photography.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This is what Emma Lazarus called the Statue of Liberty.
What is the New Colossus?
Immigrants could learn American customs through this government program.
What is the Americanization Movement?
This was the City Boss of New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This amendment legalized the sale of alcohol in America.
What is the 21st amendment?
Ida Tarbell exposed this person's corrupt business practices.
Who is John Rockefeller?
This is the theory that Immigrant groups blend into the culture adding items to the culture but not keeping strong ties to their cultural traditions and background.
What is the melting pot theory?
This was the name of Upton Sinclair's infamous book.
What is The Jungle?
This was the name of a process used by political machines to utilize their influence to steal money for themselves.
What is graft?
This law was used to combat industrialists like Rockefeller and Carnegie.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This was the name of Jacob Riis' book.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
This was Emma Lazurus' name for Ellis Island.
What is the Golden Door?
This progressive woman purchased the Hull House to help immigrants and poor people.
Who is Jane Addams?
Congress eventually gave the power to the people to vote for Sentors due to the corrupt actions of Boss Tweed.
What is the 17th amendment?
This president was also known as a "trustbuster" because he went after Monopolies in America.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This author wrote a book to expose the corrupt business practices of Boss Tweed.
Who is Lincoln Steffins?