Vocab
This term describes a period that appears shiny on the surface but hides social problems underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
Wrote The Jungle, exposing unsafe factory and meatpacking conditions.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is credited with coining the term "The Gilded Age."
Who is Mark Twain?
__________ House to help immigrants adjust to American life.
What is Hull House?
Cause: Immigrants arrive in large numbers.
What are more crowded cities / growth of immigrant neighborhoods?
A journalist who investigates and publishes about social ills, corruption, or abuses—often during the Progressive Era.
What is a muckraker?
Argued for vocational education and gradual economic self-help for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Jacob Riis wrote the "How the Other Half Lives" which exposed the terrible conditions in this type of housing.
What are tenements or immigrant slums?
The term Gilded Age means something is shiny on the __________ but corrupt underneath.
What is surface?
Cause: Unsafe work environments & no regulations.
What is worker injuries and calls for workplace regulation?
The practice of giving large sums of money by wealthy people to support public causes, like libraries or schools.
What is philanthropy?
Co-founded the Niagara Movement and pushed for immediate civil rights for African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The poem "The New Colossus" is displayed on this landmark located in New York City.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle helped lead to laws regulating __________ products.
What are meat/food products?
Cause: The Jungle exposes meatpacking conditions.
What is new food safety and inspection laws?
A community center that offered services like classes, childcare, and help to new immigrants—Hull House is an example.
What is a settlement house?
Founded Hull House to help immigrants adjust to American life.
Who is Jane Addams?
The 19th Amendment granted this group of people the right to suffrage.
Who are women?
Ida Tarbell exposed corruption within __________ . (this company)
What is Standard Oil?
Daily Double!!!
Cause: Teddy Roosevelt creates the "Bull Moose Party."
An economic policy where government interferes as little as possible in business—"hands off" approach.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
Wrote detailed reports on the unfair business practices of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This organization was known for political corruption, its immigrant support, and being led by politician Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
Tammany Hall gained support from many __________ immigrants in New York City.
What is Irish?
Cause: Progressive movements pass the 18th amendment.