Industrialization
The transformation from producing goods by hand to producing goods by machine
What is industrialization?
A problem that causes people to immigrate to another place.
What is a push factor?
Journalists who wrote about America's social, political, and environmental problems.
What are muckrakers?
This act required each new tenement in New York to be built with a central courtyard and to have a bathroom in each apartment.
What is the Tenement House Act of 1901?
A group formed in the late 1800s to organize the women's suffrage movement
What is NAWSA?
The founder of Standard Oil who built his fortune by purchasing rival oil refineries and monopolizing the oil industry.
Who is Rockefeller?
An attraction that draws immigrants to another place.
What is a pull factor?
Name one reason why living conditions in cities were so poor at the turn of the century.
What is poor infrastructure, lack of fire protection, or sanitation problems?
This organization formed in 1904 to promote laws restricting or banning child labor.
What is the National Child Labor Committee?
This group, formed in 1909, protested racial violence and fought through the courts to end segregation and ensure that African American men could exercise voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.
What is the NAACP?
An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned rather than controlled by government
What is capitalism?
The policy of favoring the interests of native-born Americans over those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
Organizations that strived to get the money and influence that came with possessing political power.
What are political machines?
The process by which voters can remove an elected official before his or her term expires.
What is recall?
Booker T. Washington founded this vocational college for African Americans in Alabama.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
The 1890 federal law that outlawed trusts, monopolies, and other forms of business that restricted trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This law was passed after Chinese immigrants were blamed for economic troubles in the 1870s.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The infamous New York City political machine and its leader.
What was Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed?
A lawmaking reform enabling citizens to propose and pass a law directly without the state legislature.
What is an initiative?
This amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
A corporate expansion strategy that involves joining together as many firms from the same industry as possible.
What is horizontal integration?
The assimilation of immigrants into American society, a goal of some patriotic groups who feared that increased immigration threatened American society and values.
What is Americanization?
Name one common form of corruption in cities at the turn of the century.
What are rigged elections, clearing of illegal activities, or donations in exchange for city work contracts?
President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program, focused on regulating big business, protecting workers and consumers, and preserving the environment.
What is the Square Deal?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?