Robber Barons/Political Machine
True or False: The Gilded Age and The Industrial Revolution saw the wealth gap between poor and rich shrink.
False. It increased
The 18th amendment did what
banned selling of alcohol
Teddy Roosevelt was a president that represented these kinds of policies
progressive
What invention made transportation faster?
Steam engine
True or False: Immigrants at this time came from England
False. Eastern and southern europe
Social Darwinism
True or False: progressives cared about protecting the environment
True
True or False: teddy roosevelt hated the environment
False
This allowed for the quick movement of goods and people
The transcontinental railroad
European immigrants were processed where?
Ellis island
This man's companies were involved in the homestead strike
Carnegie
This two word concept was a major theme of progressive activists
moral improvement
Teddy Roosevelt's deal was known as ?
square deal
What major ethic group built the US Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese
Asian Immigrants were processed where?
Angel Island
These people are workers who will do the work instead of the strikers
Scabs
Name two major organizations that are still with us today that were created during the progressive era
YMCA and salvation army
True or False: Teddy Roosevelt had no interest in government regulation
False
The 19th amendment did what
Gave women the right to vote
Immigrants lived where?
Tenaments
Political machine
This woman helped found the NAACP
Florence Kelly
Teddy Roosevelt read this book that led to his implementing regulation of meat production
the jungle
How did women's arguments for suffrage differ compared to previous arguments
Argued women were unique, rather than just like men.
This group opposed immigrants coming into the US
Nativists