The Progressive Era
Jane Adams establishment that taught economics, brought medical care, childcare, taught English, gave legal advice, and gave job training, among other services, to immigrants and women
What is the Hull House
Who was the leader of the Sioux Indians?
Sitting Bull
What process made the production of steel far easier?
The Bessemer Process
What are the two Islands immigrants may have went to before entering the country? (100 Points per island)
Ellis (New York) and Angel (San Francisco)
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that limited the freedoms of African Americans in the south and enforced Segregation.
Journalists that investigated and exposed political corruption, child labor conditions, city slums, and other social issues
What are Muckrakers?
What development made it easier for people to travel towards the west, especially those from other countries?
The transcontinental railroad.
True or False - During the Gilded Age we seen a rise in Urbanization
True - People from all over were moving into cities, especially those originally living in rural areas.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
An act put into place by Congress to limit the amount of Chinese allowed to come into the country
What was the purpose of the NAACP?
To help African American's fight segregation, racial discrimination, and racial violence in the South. (Political arm to fight Jim Crow for African Americans)
His book "The Jungle" exposed poor labor practices and unsanitary conditions that produced contaminated food in Chicago and led to the creation of this organization
The Food and Drug Administration
What did the Homestead Act do?
Gave a family 160 acres of free land if they farmed it for 5 years, built a road, and dug a well
Who are the five main robber barons, and what industry were they in?
Carnegie -Steel
Vanderbilt - Railroad
Morgan - Finance
Rockefeller - Oil
Ford - Automobile
What are tenements?
Tenements are when multiple families live in a single apartment.
T/F - Because of the NAACP, race relations improved during the Progressive Era.
False - Race relations did not improve till later on
Where supporters of new laws could collect voters’ signatures to force a public vote on the issue that could become law
What is Initiative?
Why are the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee important?
They were the last pockets of resistance to Westward expansion.
Which new innovation contributed to a significant increase in the length of the workday in factories in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century
The light bulb (Electricity) increased the hours of the workday and production.
What is one social issue faced by many newly arriving immigrants during the Gilded Age by Americans?
Nativism
Sat in a "whites only" railroad car to challenge the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Lead to the legalization of "Separate but Equal"
Who is Homer Plessy
She exposed corrupt practices of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
What two companies built the Transcontinental Railroad? Hint - One started in Omaha, Nebraska and one in Sacramento, California
What is the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads
T/F The Gilded Age is characterized by the growth of big business
True
Samuel Gompers was the leader of this notable labor union during the Gilded Age?
What is the AFL
This was used to discourage and prevent African Americans from voting during the Jim Crow Era.
What is Poll Tax, Literacy tests, grandfather clause, etc.