Vocab
An increase in the amount of people entering into cities and towns
What is urbanization
True/false: Most industrial jobs were unskilled and had many types of workers (women, children, immigrants)
What is true
What is the name of the place where many European immigrants checked in to before they entered the United States?
What is Ellis Island
Name the three Progressive Presidents
Who is Teddy Roosevelt (Square Deal), William Taft (16th Amendment), and Woodrow Wilson (New Freedom)
Nativist believed that America and its land should be shared for everyone
What is false
Total control of an industry by a single producer
What is a monopoly
Chapter 20 discusses inventions and innovators. Who created the lightbulb?
Who is Thomas Edison
Is immigrants coming to America for a job, dreams, hope, and land considered a push or pull factor?
What is a pull factor
A modern, educated woman who worked outside the home
What is the "new woman"
Muckrakers were corrupt members of government who worked for money and bribes
What is false
A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions
What is a sweatshop
Name the three factors of production
What is Land, Labor, and Capital
People who were corrupt who used things like bribes to control government in cities
Who are political machines/bosses
What person helped to start the first Settlement Home?
Who is Jane Addams
Before unions formed, if workers were on strike, their boss would simply just hire new workers
What is true. (With unions, workers could negotiate for better conditions and wages. Before unions, if you protested, you would most likely get fired/replaced)
Place where most poor people lived at in the cities
What are tenements
This guy controlled the steel industry
Poor, rundown Urban neighborhoods are called this
What are slums
This person focused on agriculture and economic opportunities in hopes to end segregation
Who is Booker T. Washington
Railroad companies offered rebates (discounts) to smaller companies.
What is false. They offered them to larger companies, who would usually have larger loads to put on the trains.
Program by President Wilson that criticizes big government and big corporations
What is "New Freedom." He wants more rules or management over big businesses.
The practice of combing businesses together is called _________________
What is consolidation
What is assimilation
Progressive Leaders wanted the 17th Amendment to pass. What was the 17th Amendment?
The right for people to elect Senators
Most immigrants from Europe came from the Eastern and Southern parts
What is true