Industrialization
This period brought more machines and factories into American workplaces.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These crowded, low-cost apartment buildings housed many families in growing cities.
What are tenements?
These journalists investigated and exposed problems in American society.
Who are muckrakers?
This amendment gave women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This president created the Square Deal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
America needed natural resources and a large ________ to successfully industrialize.
What is a workforce?
European immigrants often entered the United States through this location in New York Harbor.
What is Ellis Island?
He wrote The Jungle and exposed problems in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This amendment created a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This movement fought for women's right to vote.
What is women's suffrage?
This railroad connected the eastern and western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Asian immigrants often entered the United States through this location in San Francisco Harbor.
What is Angel Island?
She investigated Standard Oil and its unfair business practices.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This amendment established Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the United States.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This term means one company has complete control over a product or service.
What is a monopoly?
This type of organization tried to keep a political party in power and was usually led by a powerful “boss.”
What is a political machine?
He used photographs to expose poverty and terrible living conditions in tenements.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This amendment allowed Americans to directly elect their U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
After The Jungle exposed meatpacking conditions, this 1906 law required federal inspection of meat and packing plants.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This economic key term says the government should interfere as little as possible in the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
This famous New York City political machine was associated with Boss Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
He exposed corruption in city governments.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
This amendment changed when the president and Congress begin their terms, shortening the “lame-duck” period.
What is the 20th Amendment?
Roosevelt earned this nickname because his administration challenged powerful corporations.
What is the “Trust Buster”?