Push/Pull Factors
What do we call the reasons that make people leave their home country?
What are push factors?
What type of crowded apartment building did many immigrants live in during the late 1800s?
What are tenement houses?
Conditions in hospitals treating mental illness
Who is Nellie Bly?
Supported conservation and the establishment of Forest Service, which oversaw national parks such as Yellowstone
Who is President Roosevelt?
Believed education in vocational and agricultural skills were key to equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
What do we call the reasons that attract people to move to a new place?
What are pull factors?
Why were tenement houses often unsafe places to live?
What is "they were overcrowded and lacked proper sanitation and ventilation"?
Unsanitary meatpacking practices
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Worked to regulate business and break up monopolies like Standard Oil and the American Tobacco Company.
Who is President Taft?
Worked for greater opportunities for Black Americans.
Who is both Washington and DuBois?
High unemployment and few job opportunities are examples of what type of factor?
What are push factors?
What new building material made it possible to build taller skyscrapers in cities?
What is steel?
Illegal business practices
Ida Tarbell
Strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act with the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act.
Who is President Wilson?
Believed political activism was key to equality.
Who is DuBois?
Better schools and higher-paying jobs are examples of what type of factor?
What are pull factors?
What scientific idea explains that many diseases are caused by tiny living organisms?
What is germ theory?
Political corruption
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
Passed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.
Who is President Taft?
Believed in equal treatment for all Black Americans.
Who are Washington and DuBois?
A drought destroys crops, but another country offers farming jobs and steady pay. Identify the push factor and the pull factor.
Push factor: drought destroying crops
Pull factors: farming and steady pay
What is "germ theory led to better sanitation and cleanliness, while improved buildings had better ventilation, plumbing, and space, reducing disease".
Passed the Federal Trade Commission Act to protect consumers.
Who is President Wilson?
Was editor of The Crisis
Who is DuBois?