Immigration
Where did most of the immigrants come from?
Europe
What does the term immigration mean?
Movement of people from one place to another. A foreign country to USA.
Immigrants lived in crammed spaced called___________________.
Tenements
What did the 18th Amendment do?
Gets rid of Alcohol
What does industrialization mean?
Moving from a agriculture society to a society run by machines
Name 1 push factor and 1 pull factor
Answers vary
The 19th amendment gave this to women?
The right to vote
Describe the living conditions in cities during this time?
Gross, disgusting, smelly, dirty, rodents everywhere
Which 2 women influenced the women's suffrage movement?
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Was the Progressive Movement able to end child labor?
True or False
True
Which 2 groups of immigrants were discriminated against?
Irish & Chinese
The 19th amendment prohibited the _____________________, ________________, and __________________ of alcohol.
Manufacturing, sale, transportation
How did the camera affect immigrants lives?
It allowed the wealthy to see the living conditions in the poor ends of the city.
Who did workers fight for better pay and working conditions?
They joined unions
Describe the working conditions in the factories?
No ventilation
No safety measure
Long hours
Ellis Island = New York City
Angel Island = San Francisco
Who operated the Hull House and what 2 items did they provide.
Jane Addams
Gyms, English classes, showers, arts and crafts etc.
Name 2 problems that are found in cities and then give 2 solutions to fix these problems.
Housing = larger apartments
Sanitation = Garbage collection
Fire = sprinklers
Which strike was in Chicago and dealt with railroad cars?
The pullman strike
Why did entire families have to work in the factories?
Because they needed the money to survive in the city
Describe the process for immigrants coming to the USA?
First the immigrants had to take about a 2 week journey on a boat. Then once they arrived in New York they waited to be inspected for medical issues. Then they were processed and examined. Then they took the stair way to their new life.
Name all 3 muckrakers and what they represented.
Jacob Riis = tenement life
Lewis Hine = Child labor
Upton Sinclair = Meatpacking
Name 3 groups that helped solve the problems in cities?
Jane Addams with Hull House
Political Machines
Organized Labor
What did the leaders of the Temperance Movement want?
They wanted alcohol to be illegal due to its terrible effects on society
Name 2 negative effects of industrialization?
Pollution
low wages
long hours
worker injury