Industrialization & Labor
This production method used by Ford moved products down a line where each worker repeated one small task.
Assembly Line
This famous monument in New York Harbor welcomed immigrants arriving in the United States.
Statue of Liberty
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era were called this.
Muckrakers
This political movement represented the interests of farmers in the late 1800s.
Populist Movement / Populist Party
These laws were passed to break up monopolies like Standard Oil.
Antitrust Laws
This was a major effect of assembly line production on factory work.
Work became repetitive / workers performed one small task repeatedly.
Emma Lazarus’s poem suggests immigrants came to America to escape these conditions.
Poverty, oppression, and war
This book by Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. (Think of a warm, humid ecosystem with very unique animals and dense forest)
The Jungle
This famous speech by William Jennings Bryan argued against the gold standard.
Cross of Gold Speech
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote nationwide in 1920.
19th Amendment
Immigrants helped fill jobs in this rapidly growing sector of the economy during industrialization.
Manufacturing
This crowded New York City neighborhood was known for large immigrant populations and tenement housing.
Lower East Side
Specifically named Neighborhoods- Little Italy
This journalist exposed the monopoly power of Standard Oil. (From Progressive Reformers)
Ida Tarbell
The Populist Party platform argued that this problem allowed wealthy elites to control politics.
Political corruption / control by wealthy capitalists
Investigations into tenement housing led to these laws improving sanitation and safety in housing.
Tenement Housing Laws / Housing Reform Laws
Conflicts between these two groups often caused strikes and economic disruption during the late 1800s.
Labor and Management (Workers and Business Owners)
Immigrant workers helped supply labor for this expanding part of the U.S. economy.
Factories / Manufacturing
This photographer and writer exposed poor living conditions in New York City tenements.(From Muckrakers Escape Room)
Jacob Riis
Farmers created this political party because they believed Democrats and Republicans ignored their needs.
Populist Party
Public outrage after The Jungle helped lead to federal laws regulating this industry.
Food and Meatpacking Industry