People
sought better pay and safer working conditions for laborers
What is Labor Unions?
passed into law because of The Jungle
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad/RRs?
Upton Sinclair wrote about these unsanitary places
What are meatpacking industries?
longest river in the USA
What is the Mississippi River?
acted in violation of Amend. 18; became organized crime boss
Who is Al Capone?
State actions to remove a corrupt official(s)
What is recall?
right to vote
What is suffrage?
region home to settlers under the Homestead Act
What is the Great Plains?
determines amount of money in circulation for the USA
What is the Federal Reserve?
political party of the farmers during the Progressive Era
What is the Populist Party?
mandated that a govt job went to a person with skills and education for the job
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
action of building libraries, hospitals, colleges, etc to assist Americans rising from poverty
What is philanthropy?
overcrowded, poor sanitation and often air polluted
What are urban areas?
laborers in textile mills, factories, mines; lowest paid workers
What is a child laborer?
established by WEB DuBois; will to use the courts to bring equality
What is the NAACP?
closed the frontier
What is the Homestead Act?
pursed lowing immigrant arrivals in the US to protect American jobs for Americans
Who are nativists?
home to Boss Tweed, Ellis Island and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
What is New York City?
Irishmens' faith
What is Catholic?
established the National Park Service
Who is Pres. Woodrow Wilson?
supported the assimilation of Native Indians
What is the Dawes Act?
few jobs, no participation in govt, punishment for chosen faith
What are PUSH factors?
Chinese Exclusion Act closed immigration, no need to cross this ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
established Hull House for immigrant assimilation
Who is Jane Addams?