Amendments
Reformers
Vocabulary
Immigration
Potluck
100
Prohibited the production, sale, or consumption of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
100
Established Hull House; a settlement house for immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
100
A large business in which shareholders own parts, or shares, or a business.
What is a corporation?
100
State one reason immigrants moved to the U.S.
What is famine, war, poverty, jobs....
100
Allowed businesses to stay open later. Invented by Thomas Edison. This was safer than it's gas counterpart.
What is the electric light bulb?
200
Allowed women ages 21 and older to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
200
Passed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. Set aside land for national parks.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
A person who moves to a new country to begin a new life.
What is an immigrant?
200
This was an immigration station located off the coast of New York. European immigrants passed through this station to be processed.
What is Ellis Island?
200
This is when a business has little or no competition.
What is a monopoly?
300
Allowed U.S. citizens to elect senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
300
Went undercover to expose the unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry at the turn of the century. Wrote The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
One's culture, language and customs.
What is ethnicity?
300
This was an immigration station used by Asian immigrants coming to the U.S. It was located in San Franciso.
What is Angel Island?
300
This was a faster way for people to travel through cities.
What is rapd transit?
400
Required citizens to pay income tax.
What is the 16th amendment?
400
Established the AFL; a leading labor union at the turn-of-the- century.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
400
A poorly constructed, often unsafe apartment, inhabited by immigrants.
What is a tenement building?
400
Immigrants often lived in these run-down, poor areas of cities in tenement buildings.
What is a slum?
400
This is a person who fought for change at the turn of the century.
What is a reformer?
500
Allowed all men to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
500
Founded the NAACP. This was an organization aimed at racial equality.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
A large fenced in area used to hold livestock until it is sold.
What is a stockyard?
500
Workers, many immigrants, would refuse to work to protest against unfair working conditions.
What is a strike?
500
Started Standard Oil Compnay which almost became a monopoly.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
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